TEXTS

On Good and Evil (KAHLIL GIBRAN)

And one of the elders of the city said, Speak to us of Good and Evil. And he answered: Of the good in you I can speak, but not of the evil. For...

06 August, 2025

It is not a coincidence that in healthy times, Beauty is identified with Good, and Good with the Sun (ODYSSEUS ELYTIS, NOBEL LECTURE 1979)

In the final analysis, where is truth? In the erosion and death we see around us, or in this propensity to believe that the world is indestructible and eternal? I know, it is wise to avoid redundancies. The cosmogonic theories that have succeeded each other...

02 May, 2025

I thought that my voyage had come to its end … (TAGORE – NOBEL1913)

I thought that my voyage had come to its end at the last limit of my power, that the path before me was closed, that provisions were exhausted, and the time come to take shelter in a silent obscurity, but I find that thy will knows no end in me, and...

11 February, 2025

Beauty (FERNANDO PESSOA)

Does a flower really have beauty? Does a fruit really have beauty? No: they have only color and form And existence. Beauty is the name of something that doesn't exist But that I give to things in exchange for the pleasure they give me. It means nothing. So why do I say about...

01 February, 2025

By the way, do you know Greece? No? (ALBERT CAMUS)

There one has to be pure in heart The Zuider Zee is a dead sea, or almost. With its flat shores, lost in the fog, there’s no saying where it begins or ends. So we are steaming along without any landmark .. We are making progress...

21 October, 2024

Freedom of expression (VLADIMIIR MAYAKOVSKY)

The first night They approach And pick a flower from our garden And we don’t say anything. The second night, No longer hiding, they Stomp on the flowers, kill our dog, And we don’t say anything. Until one day The weakest of them Enters our house alone Robs us of light, and, Knowing our fear, Take the voice from...

17 October, 2024

Avaricious and Envious (AESOP)

Two neighbours came before Jupiter and prayed him to grant their hearts' desire. Now the one was full of avarice, and the other eaten up with envy. So to punish them both, Jupiter granted that each might have whatever he wished for himself, but only on condition...

24 September, 2024

Did you not shout for help? (BERTOLT BRECHT – The helpless boy)

Mr. K. talked about the bad habit of silently allowing an injustice suffered to eat at one, and told the following story: A boy was crying to himself and a passerby asked what was wrong. 'I had saved two dimes for the movies,' said the...

13 September, 2024

Be Good, Be Good. A Poem. (MARK TWAIN)

Be good, be good, be always good, And now & then be clever, But don’t you ever be too good, Nor ever be too clever; For such as be too awful good They awful lonely are, And such as often clever be Get cut & stung & trodden on by persons of lesser mental...

06 September, 2024

Logic is enough?

6. "'Mouse' (in latin "mus") is a syllable. Now a mouse eats cheese; therefore, a syllable eats cheese." Suppose now that I cannot solve this problem; see what peril hangs over my head as a result of such ignorance! What a scrape I shall be...

18 May, 2024