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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: ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

18 May, 2024