«Some people misunderstand the concept of karma. They take the Buddha’s doctrine of the law of causality to mean that all is predetermined, that there is nothing that the individual can do. This is a total misunderstanding. The very term karma or action is a term of active force, which indicates that future events are […]
Les mer»Dauden gjennom verdi gjeng, han vil rydja liv or lande, Mannsens barn som blom i eng bleiknar for hans kalde ande, Under denne mørke makt er alt liv på jordi lagt. Elias Blix (1870)
Les mer»Human nature, essentially changeable, as unstable as the dust, can endure no restraint; if it binds itself it soon begins to tear madly at its bonds, until it rends everything asunder, the wall, the bonds, and its very self. –»The Great Wall of China» Franz Kafka
Les mer»I. It is the opinion of this Congress that it is desirable to adopt a single prime meridian for all nations, in place of the multiplicity of initial meridians which now exist. II. The Conference proposes to the Governments here represented the adoption of the meridian passing through the centre of the transit instrument at […]
Les mer»Is a strong brown god – sullen, untamed and intractable. T.S. Eliot Four Quartets «Little Gidding» (1942)
Les mer»Because I do not hope to turn again Because I do not hope Because I do not hope to turn. T.S. Eliot Ash Wednesday (1930)
Les mer»The wounded surgeon piles the steel That questions the distempered part; Beneath the bleeding heart we feel The sharp compassion of the healer’s art Resolving the enigma of the fever chart. T.S. Eliot Four Quartets East Coker (1940)
Les mer»You don’t even live once. Karl Kraus
Les mer»To be a community of free people, you have to defend that freedom tooth and nail, and for this country to remain vital, you have to understand that freedom is a very, very vulnerable institution. It’s something you have to keep defending, and the only way to achieve that is intolerance of intolerance. – Ayaan […]
Les mer»When someone behaves like a beast, he says: ‘After all, one is only human.’ But when he is treated like a beast, he says, ‘After all, one is human.’ Karl Kraus
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