“For every animal, and more especially for man, a certain conformity and proportion between the will and the intellect is necessary for existing or making any progress in the world. The more precise and correct the proportion which nature establishes, the more easy, safe and agreeable will be the passage through the world. Still, if […]
Goethe talked with me about the continuation of his memoirs, with which he is now busy. He observed that this later period of his life would not be narrated with such minuteness as the youthful epoch of “Dichtung und Wahrheit.” “I must,” said he, “treat this later period more in the fashion of annals: […]
“Job’s forthright indictment of the injustice of this world is surely right. The ways of the world are weird and much more unpredictable than either scientists or theologians generally make things look. Job personifies the inscrutable, merciless, uncanny in a god who is all-powerful but not just. . . .
“Those who believe in God because […]
“(Lion) fell in love in his tenth year with a boy named Schmidt (best pupil in the school), the son of a tailor, liked to hear him talked about and got all the boys to converse with him, never spoke to him himself but it gave him great pleasure to hear that the boy had […]
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LETTER IX.
But perhaps there is a vicious circle in our previous reasoning! Theoretical culture must it seems bring along with it practical culture, and yet the latter must be the condition of the former. All improvement in the political sphere must proceed from the ennobling of the character. But, subject to the influence of a […]
“I have considered, thus far, the effects on the pleasures and benefits of the marriage union which depend on the mere unlikeness between the wife and the husband: but the evil tendency is prodigiously aggravated when the unlikeness is inferiority. Mere unlikeness, when it only means difference of good qualities, may be more a benefit […]
Nycticorax nycticorax
“As its name implies, this noisy bird is largely nocturnal, beginning to forage at dusk, when other herons are on their way to roosts. Night-herons are less likely to nest in mixed colonies than other herons; when they do, they often keep to themselves in a separate corner. These birds are sluggish hunters, standing […]
Epimetheus and Janus: Interchangeable Moons of Saturn
This was the gloomiest Ramzan of our lives - aside from amusing intermezzos on the television where it was revealed by certain politicians and other sagacious dungbugs that the earthquake was a consequence of our evil deeds.
The new moon has just been sighted and tomorrow is Eid for sure […]
I am reminded of individuals like this accomplished sarangi player when anyone talks of respect for music and musicians. I often recall Ustad Mubarik Ali’s peaceful distant gaze while he played the sarangi - like a dream.
Mubarik Ali suffered from tuberculosis, diabetes and emphysema for the last several years of his life. There were never […]
