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Ode 10 (Book IV): Age (Horace)

O you who are cruel still, and a master of Venus’s gifts, when a white, unexpected plumage surmounts all your arrogance, and the tresses that...

21 November, 2020

Cy Twombly and Greece (JONAS STORSVE)

Greece comes up again and again in Cy Twombly's biography. It is Greece as the physical country that he visited frequently. But it...

20 November, 2020

It is like the alms that one throws at the beggar and that helps him today by prolonging his martyrdom until tomorrow (ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER)

All willing springs from lack, from deficiency, and thus from suffering. Fulfillment brings this to an end; yet for one wish that is...

19 November, 2020

The heart cannot give you a good livelihood, but it can give you a good life (OSHO)

Mind is good where money is concerned; mind is good where war is concerned; mind is good where ambitions are concerned - but...

18 November, 2020

Hedgehog dilemma affects “human hedgehogs” (ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER)

A number of porcupines huddled together for warmth on a cold day in winter, but, as they began to prick one another with...

17 November, 2020

Broken wings (NAJWA ZEBIAN)

Don’t break a bird’s wings and then tell it to fly. Don’t break a heart and then tell it to love. Don’t break...

16 November, 2020

EPISTEMOCRACY, A DREAM (NASSIM NICHOLAS TALEB)

Someone with a low degree of epistemic arrogance is not too visible, like a shy person at a cocktail party. We are not...

15 November, 2020

The Fermi paradox. Are there any extraterrestrial civilizations?

The Fermi paradox, named after Italian-American physicist Enrico Fermi, is the apparent contradiction between the lack of evidence for extraterrestrial civilizations and various...

14 November, 2020

For some, the distance makes them look great, but up close they are not worth much (JEAN DE LA FONTAINE)

The Camel and the Floating Sticks The first who saw the humpback’d camel Fled off for life; the next approach’d with care; The third with tyrant...

13 November, 2020

The wonderful properties of the number 5040 that Plato knew well

5040 is a factorial (7!) and one less than a square, making (7, 71) a Brown number pair, a highly composite number, superior...

11 November, 2020