Saturday, February 26, 2011

With a philosophical laugh

«To all those who wish to talk about man, about his reign or his liberation, to all those who still ask themselves questions about what man is in his essence, to all those who wish to take him as their starting-point in their attempts to reach the truth, to all those who, on the other hand, refer all knowledge back to the truths of man himself, to all those who refuse to formalize without anthropologizing, who refuse to mythologize without demystifying, who refuse to think without immediately thinking that it is man who is thinking, to all these warped and twisted forms of reflection we can answer only with a philosophical laugh - which means, to a certain extent, a silent one»

(Michel Foucault, The Order of Things)

Thursday, February 24, 2011

Coincidenze e Fato


Sottile è ciò che divide la coincidenza dal Fato.

Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Ad cultum humanum civilemque delendum

"You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them"
(Ray Bradbury)

"Non c'è bisogno di bruciare i libri per distruggere una cultura. Basta fare in modo che la gente non li legga più".

"Ad cultum humanum civilemque delendum opus non est libros incendi. Satis est homines impelli ne eos legant".

Monday, February 21, 2011

Nessuna causa è persa


Nessuna causa è persa finchè ci sarà un folle a combattere per essa.

Wednesday, February 9, 2011

We see how we are


“When a pickpocket sees the Master, he sees only his pockets.”



Attributed to Ramakrishna (1836-1886)