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Walk in Beauty

Musings of a word-shy Jutlander

Posts tagged with "philosophy"

Keyword: Truth

If I were to write a list of keywords to my personal reality, honesty and knowledge would not be there, but truth would.

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Which Zarathustra?

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I am reading Doktor Glas, Hjalmar Söderberg's miraculously beautiful novel about a murder. (Yep, it's true!) I have read it many times through the years. This time I am reading the Swedish original on line at Project Runeberg.

It contains a quote that I have not been able to verify:

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For us who fail

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I do not remember if I have quoted anything of this before, or if I only thought about doing so. But that does not really matter much. The words of those two great writers are certainly worthy of being repeated again and again and again:

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A bit of ancient wisdom

From Babylonia. It seems that the rules of knowledge were the same in those distant days.

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Dimensionality

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Some people seem to live in personal realities that have a lot in common with mine. (Or perhaps we really share the same reality, it's just that we are not equally familiar with all aspects of it.)

Others very obviously live in realities that are extremely different from mine. I have been thinking about the nature of those differences.

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Lessons, my life taught me

Not necessarily in any particular order.

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Liberating the swastika?

This may not be among the most obvious of the many crimes that the Nazi regime in Germany committed, but it is certainly worth mentioning: They defiled an ancient, universally benevolent symbol: The swastika.

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