Die Sonne der Kultur

Wenn die Sonne der Kultur niedrig steht, werfen selbst Zwerge einen langen Schatten. 

Quando il sole della cultura è basso, i nani proiettano un’ombra da giganti.

When the sun of knowledge is low, dwarfs cast a long shadow.

(Karl Kraus)

Educate the heart

The goal of school is to turn an egotistical heart into an all-compassionate one.

(Konstantin Ushinsky)

Wait and see what happens to them

“寒山问拾得：世人有人谤我、欺我、辱我、笑我、轻我、贱我，我当如何处之？拾得曰：只要忍他、避他、由他、耐他、不要理他，再过几年，你且看他”

Master Han Shang had once asked Master Shi De: “People in the world slander me, bully me, insult me, laugh at me, belittle me and look down on me. What should I do about it?”

Master Shi De replied: “You only need to tolerate them, avoid them, let them be, be patient with them and never mind about them and then wait and see what happens to them a few years later!”

La distance du coeur

The Nonexistent Woman

She’s made of thin-air

                        - some say

“Sally doesn’t exist!” At least that’s what they say.

            She’s a dream in a dream

                        fog on a sunny day

                                    so they say

            but who cares?

                        Who can deny

                                    that sometimes

                                                a dream

                                                            is not worth

                                                                   a thousand worlds?

(Dr. Divago)