ocurént

"Dacă sistemele vechi s-au golit de conţinut, nu înseamnă că nu mai pot fi create altele noi. Dar, dacă sistemele şi stilurile sînt greu de înlocuit, fiind dificilă construcţia altora noi, dacă nu chiar imposibilă, jocul nesfîrşit al nuanţelor oferă spiritului creator al popoarelor şi oamenilor posibilităţi nelimitate. (Petre Ţuţea, Filozofia nuanţelor, 1969)

l'optique illusoire

.. 'Tout, la cendre latine et la poussière grecque,
Se mêlaient. J’étais haut comme un in-folio.
Deux voix me parlaient. L’une, insidieuse et ferme,
Disait :  » La Terre est un gâteau plein de douceur ;  Je puis  (et ton plaisir serait alors sans terme !)
Te faire un appétit d’une égale grosseur.  »
Et l’autre :  » Viens ! oh ! viens voyager dans les rêves,
Au delà du possible, au delà du connu !  »
Et celle-là chantait comme le vent des grèves,..'

fictiveness of fiction

The phrase ‘in reality’ had pointed us, of course, to the dimensions of reality which are available within the book, its planar perspectives. And in terms of the ‘slight digression’, all fiction is a digression from the serious business of acting. All writing that analyses human motivation or describes the psychological condition of its characters is to some degree recapitulating the fable of Achilles and the tortoise: to the extent that every distance is infinitely divisible into more and more minute units of description, writing is a series of parentheses within parentheses. Its very nature is to be digressive. We are in one sense getting nowhere...

picking up

'The problem, of course, is that the "human mind meld" is an unfiltered process. We might like to think that we have completely original minds, but we are easily influenced by others and have an "unknowingness" of how this mind meld works. '

alléguant

'Foarte puţine din opiniile comunicate de Noica unuia sau altuia din numeroşii ofiţeri (care „lucrau spre binele poporului român“–Noica dixit!) au devenit publice, şi anume în „Glasul Patriei“, oficina de propagandă a regimului. Destule sunt aproape de nereprodus. Iată doar o jumătate de rând din cele 29 de pagini ale unei declaraţii, date la ieşirea din închisoare, în 1964, despre Emil Cioran:  „Nu-i un om, e un refuz uman“.'

affordability

When we teach children to simply memorize material so they can pass tests, we give children access to the knowledge on only one side of the box. So when life tosses this box up (as it certainly will), it may not land on a side that is visible and accessible. In this case, the kids don’t have access to the knowledge. The end-result answers are not the only things that kids need to know. They need to learn to navigate the course of acquiring knowledge -essentially, to get to the answers by being curious and coming up with a lot of questions, a lot of whys. They need to get accustomed to learning from different directions, playing with concepts, and figuring out how to ask the whys in order to gain access to knowledge.

La postérité de Victor Hugo se porte bien

Les fléchettes, même les plus acérées, adressées à un tel géant, sont dérisoires. Au-delà même du vaste et protéiforme génie de Victor Hugo, nous lui devons les bases d'un humanisme et d'une fraternité, concrètement vécus de jour en jour, d'oeuvre en oeuvre.

Sables mouvants

Démons et merveilles

Vents et marées     

Motivating cause

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.
Bertrand Russell

Adducing

Perhaps a fifth part of her mind was thus occupied, and the remaining parts leapt over the little barrier of day which interposed between Monday morning and this rather subdued moment, and played with the things one does voluntarily and normally in the daylight. But although she was silent, she was evidently mistress of a situation which was familiar enough to her, and inclined to let it take its way for the six hundredth time, perhaps, without bringing into play any of her unoccupied faculties. A single glance was enough to show that....

Randomly

As for living standards, only the most historically ignorant would deny that it hasn’t raised them. Unfortunately it doesn’t stop the whingers in the comments section from claiming they’ve suddenly found themselves back in Dickensian Britain. It would help if they’d read Dickens, of course. Crucially, however, the purpose of capitalism is simple and easy to understand – obviously too easy for the sophisticated minds of Orr and her ilk: it’s to make profits for the shareholders and business owners.

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