Presente
Posted by Pavel eSe in Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, zlibros on martes, 2 de enero de 2024
Always hold fast to the present. Every situation, indeed every moment, is of infinite value, for it is the representative of a whole eternity.
New Year's Morning
Posted by Pavel eSe in Helen Hunt Jackson, zlibros on lunes, 1 de enero de 2024
...Always a night from old to new!
Night and the healing balm of sleep!
Each morn is New Year's morn come true,
Morn of a festival to keep.
All nights are sacred nights to make
Confession and resolve and prayer;
All days are sacred days to wake
New gladness in the sunny air.
Only a night from old to new;
Only a sleep from night to morn.
The new is but the old come true;
Each sunrise sees a new year born.
Theory of stupidity
Posted by Pavel eSe in Dietrich Bonhoeffer, zlibros on viernes, 8 de diciembre de 2023
Against stupidity we have no defense. Neither protests nor force can touch it. Reasoning is of no use. Facts that contradict personal prejudices can simply be disbelieved — indeed, the fool can counter by criticizing them, and if they are undeniable, they can just be pushed aside as trivial exceptions. So the fool, as distinct from the scoundrel, is completely self-satisfied. In fact, they can easily become dangerous, as it does not take much to make them aggressive. For that reason, greater caution is called for than with a malicious one. Never again will we try to persuade the stupid person with reasons, for it is senseless and dangerous.
In conversation with the foolish person, one virtually feels that one is dealing not at all with a person, but with slogans, catchwords and the like that have taken possession of him.
He is under a spell, blinded, misused, and abused in his very being. Having thus become a mindless tool, the stupid person will also be capable of any evil and at the same time incapable of seeing that it is evil.
La guerra y la paz
Posted by Pavel eSe in Leo Tolstoi, zlibros on martes, 28 de noviembre de 2023
There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.
The Lord of the Rings
Posted by Pavel eSe in John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, zlibros on jueves, 16 de noviembre de 2023
A day may come when the courage of men fails, when we forsake our friends and break all bonds of fellowship, but it is not this day.
Seek Out a complete Education
Posted by Pavel eSe in Mark Twain, zlibros on jueves, 2 de noviembre de 2023
All schools, all colleges, have two great functions: to confer, and to conceal, valuable knowledge... when a man is buying a basket of strawberries it can profit him to know that the bottom half of it is rotten
Los hermanos Karamazov
Posted by Pavel eSe in Fyodor Dostoyevsky, zlibros on viernes, 20 de octubre de 2023
Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and the devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.