Writer Between Worlds

Soulful writing about humans and places

Category: Societate

  • Quote of the day

    “Because existence is always more decisive than words. And it was necessary, and will always remain so, to ask oneself whether this fact in not far more important than writing books or giving lectures: that each of us actualises the content in our own act of being.” Viktor Frankl – Yes to Life in Spite…

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    “(…) a human being should never become a means to an end. But already in the economic system of the last few decades, most working people had been turned into mere means, degraded to become mere tools for economic life. It was no longer work that was the means to an end, a means for…

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    “The Copernican theory should have been humbling to human pride, but in fact the contrary effect was produced, for the triumphs of science revived human pride.” Bertrand Russel – History of Western Philosophy (The Rise of Science)

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  • In love

    with our bodies we prayed in their mutual giving, and our souls we laid bare in hope-laden heaving – our hearts, back then, a warm, welcome den, irresistible to each other, like water, like fodder, our chests throbbing magnets with manifold facets, now trifling clocks counting down the roadblocks to fame and to glory, our…

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  • Quote of the day

    “More and more of us live more and more separately from contact with nature. We have come increasingly to forget that our minds are shaped by the bodily experience of being in the world – its spaces, textures, sounds, smells and habits – as well as by genetic traits we inherit and ideologies we absorb.…

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    “… whatever else may be in perpetual flux, the meanings of words must be fixed, at least for a time, since otherwise no assertion is definite, and no assertion is true rather than false. There must be something more or less constant, if discourse and knowledge are to be possible.” Bertrand Russell – History of…

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    “Plato possessed the art to dress up illiberal suggestions in such a way that they deceived future ages, which admired the Republic without ever becoming aware what was involved in its proposals. It has always been correct to praise Plato, but not to understand him. This is the common fate of great men. My object…

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    “Truth was no longer to be ascertained by consulting authority, but by inward meditation. There was a tendency, quickly developed, towards anarchism in politics, and, in religion, towards mysticism (…) The result, in thought as in literature, was a continually deepening subjectivism, operating at first as a wholesome liberation from spiritual slavery, but advancing steadily…

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    “(Princes) know that all needs which a People imposes on itself are so many chains which it assumes. …Indeed, what yoke could be imposed on men who need nothing?” J.J. Rousseau – Discourse on the Arts and Sciences (1750)

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  • Flash fiction Tuesday

    Today’s challenge in the FB Group Ficțiuni Reale is “Romanian kiwi” – ideal for dystopia and eco-criticism. My contribution (in under 520 characters including spaces) below: Kiwi românesc Ia kiwi neamule, kiwi dulci ca mierea! striga precupeața. Vorba vine, nu era o femeie în carne și oase. Era Alexa conectată la GPT-24, o versiune ieftină. Scumpe foc.…

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  • Quote of the day

    “Men will always be what women choose to make them. If you wish then that they should be noble and virtuous, let women be taught what greatness of soul and virtue are. “ J.J. Rousseau – Discourse on the Arts and Sciences (1750)

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    “In our day, now that more subtle study and a more refined taste have reduced the art of pleasing to asystem, there prevails in modern manners a servile and deceptive conformity; so that one wouldthink every mind had been cast in the same mould. Politeness requires this thing; decorum that;ceremony has its forms, and fashion…

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