Cristache Gheorghiu
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After I wrote "Alone
among Americans", someone suggested me to write "Almost alone among
Romanians". (No joke)
Tastes are different; only
the good taste is common.
Although sometimes I am accused doing philosophy, I
think I only rambling, but - admit - I love it.
The symbol of the digit 2
derives from the answer to the simple question:
1 + 1 = ?
Therefore, why should we
ask so many questions, as the answer to the simple one is still a question?
The
first creation of man was lying.
Ordinary
people understand each other without speaking much, but - as they instruct
themselves - they speak without understanding.
It's not so difficult to guess future: try to imagine
what could be worse. If it will not happen exactly, that means you had not
enough imagination.
"On the highest cliffs, only eagles and reptiles
reach"; said Montesquieu. But coming from different directions, I am adding.
I quit smoking and I'm glad for that. If I did not
smoked I would never have known this joy.
Democracy is like a hammer: a professional can achieve
great things with it; handled badly you can get it over your fingers.
Arguing is the privilege of people who think.
We see freedom as children’s desire to flunk out of
school.
The phrase "the truth is in the middle" is
ridiculous; between true and false can not be an average.
Do
philosophy just for you!
Before being democrats, we should be honest.
Theory
trigger dialogue; experience, never.
We
try to understand nature through our rational thinking; but nature is not
rational, or - if it - has a different logic.
Life
is in the relationship between the components of the body and not by their
simply juxtaposition, so that by what is not visible. What is visible is
governed by the invisible functions.
Love
when you suffer for the beloved.
People
are equal in front of law; not behind it.
At
the old ages, life is funny. . . if you have a sense of humour.
If
you want to be a statue, you're sure to find a friendly relationship with the
birds of the air.
Stoic
advice: tell me what you want, and I will show you the futility of your desire.
There
are only philosophers; philosophy is an abstract notion, a desire.
Mankind
goes on, although does not know where.
They
say there is no sin without sinners. False! Biblical idea of sin preceded the
act.
Paradox
does not a different sort of Orthodox.
The
current international political situation clearly shows that others’ fools are
smarter than ours.
"All
simple reports generate musical harmonies" (Pythagoras). Why we not realize
that in life is the same?
The
taste of anecdote is not only in the joke, but also to whom you tell.
Hair
loss could be avoided with a simple strip of adhesive tape. This is how some
economists try to save the economy.
The
barbarians were those who created all civilizations.
The
politician's dream: to change what he does not understand.
In
the animal world, the female is the head; she selects the male. Only people
want to change the natural law, obviously without success.
A
secretary-woman keeps the secret of internal secretions.
A
simple change of the illumination angle can make objects out of recognition.
Hence, people could be recognized only if they have their own light.
The perfect democracy is the
nullities’ dictatorship.
In
captivity, you can find a way out; in freedom, you have no chance.
In
the battle between two stupid giants, a smart dwarf shifts the best for himself
Unlike
high mountains, separating people, the rivers unite them, being a common
working place.
Transforming
them into borders between countries proves the stupidity of political acts.
To be recognized, religion
must answer to existential problems of ordinary people.
Which is the explanation of
the involution Christianity and the rise of Islam?
Disappointments
come when dream comes true and we find out that it was wrong.
We are objective in front of
an unknown object, but became
subjective as we begin to know it, as judge in terms of knowledge
gained, always partial.
Origin of Monotheism:
primitive man could see
idols in any tree. In the desert, the number of potential idols was
dramatically reduced.
We
love useless things.
The
field of philosophy is that of
questions wish uncertain answers. Hence is its eternity.
It's
easy to quote philosophers. More difficult is to become their disciple.
Unlike
science, which aims to give answers, literature makes us to ask questions.
It
is useless to compare yourself to a smart man if he does not compare to you.
I
think the idea of reincarnation belongs to those who lost their sense of life
and hope for a second chance.
Wisdom
is not to be learnt, but the love of it can be induced.
If
we evolved from monkeys, our intelligence was not very helpful.
"The
cockroaches want to become beetles salon."
So
people think, and get to starve
Could
be considered sound a man perfectly adapted at a sick society?
Heraclitus:
"Between gold and straw donkey prefers straw". To me it seems normal.
Why we, the humans, think we're smarter?
Although
present, due to the absence of his presence of mind, he better would have been
absent.
The
old O.K. seems to be replaced with "Oh, Gay".
Ask men between 50-60 years old about their sex and
you will find out all about their character.
"The mistake of birth is paid with life." (Some do, others pay.)
Some believe that art (their art) is like religion:
you must believe in it not like it.
They say about some people they carried the truth
along with them to the grave, though
during the life they were liars.
Or maybe that's why.
Peace treaties are accepted if they leave open all
paths that allow the war to reborn.
Printing machine emerged at a time of declining
Catholic religion and facilitated the spread of Protestantism.
Today the Internet came, at a time of decline of
culture.
What to expect?
The
future depends on you. Do not waste time; go to bed.
Friends
come and go; Only enemies gather.
Among
the classical marks (man, cosmos, divinity), modernists eliminated divinity,
post-modernists have removed the cosmos and man remained alone.
A
thought can not be banish but by another thought.
The
peak of intuition: to deliver ideas that have not crossed your mind.
Media
is free as a whole; publications are dependent on their leadership.
Rigor
to be yourself. . . heavy burden!
Satan
= Lucifer (bearer of light)
Any
idea - no matter how stupid - can be spread if their preachers are well
organized.
From
a certain age, the scientist become more or less philosophers. Vice versa
doesn’t work.
We
talk about purity when its presence is unexpected, like the flower of lotus.
The
early Christians were the last. Once the politicians bought it, religion has
become a means of manipulation.
It
seems that cigarette smoke is more effective than incense.
The dog
is man's best friend, because he bites only our legs.
Only
curiosity makes man to risk harm in searching for good.
Thomas
More had lost his head, since he wrote "Utopia". Beheading by Henry
VIII was just a pointless revenge.
Those
with few but fixed ideas succeed better in life. The intelligent ones can be
brilliant, but ultimately they lost, because they waste their energy on other
ideas.
As
on the packets of cigarettes they wrote "Smoking seriously harms the
sound", on TV they would write something like this.
There
is nothing worse for a profession than to be institutionalised. Bureaucracy and
the impostors will play its havoc.
Devil
(disasters) approaching people each other, while God (feeling good) set them
against each other.
Misogynist
- why only men can have such feelings?
Plato
– the evidence of inefficiency of wisdom in politics.
God
is atheist.
Pride
depends on glands, not on the brain.
Women
are like flowers: the more fragrant, the fade faster.
Sculptors
– polished-stone men?
Reverie
= lazy snob.
People
who - like underwater rocks – do not rise onto the surface are the most
dangerous.
We
have got life without instructions for use.
Zero?
It may be the result of some very high values but opposite.
We
do not find out great thing about the sea only watching its waves.
Hell
can be Heaven improved by the man.
To
be effective, the number of scams should be less than that of the touch. The
reality is the opposite. Here's a flaw of democracy!
Sometimes,
impotence is taken as a virtue.
Planet
Venus is an inferno; But seen from afar, became a symbol of beauty.
It
happens!
Lightning
strikes tall and isolated trees.
If
some ones change their country, the borders are to be blamed.
If I
knew the date of my death, I would die early because of stress.
Neither
the diamond shins in the darkness.
He
is too poor in spirit to have enemies.
Refusing
natural instincts should not be considered a virtue.
If
you stand near a giant, he could crush you in his downfall.
Resin,
springing from the wound of trees, smells nice; the grass mowed smell well. Why
the dead animals smell bad? Or maybe we are subjective in assessing odours.
Some
appreciate communism like a canary his cage, which defends him against cats.
His opinion would been different if he
had know to fly.
If
life accidentally appeared on the earth, that means it is useless.
I do
not believe that God verifies our presence in the church.
Those
who do not feel sorry for those they harm on their rise, will not regret for
those they harm in their fall.
Even
a cloth put to dry could believe it strikes against the wind.
God
is all that exceeds our understanding, but we should not put in his charge
everything we do not understand.
Bodies
absorbing light are less visible than those that reflect it.
The
culture is a kind of light.
No
fire burning, but coal.
We
love only not edible animals.
We
love our neighbour more if he keeps the distance.
He
is weak because is lazy to be strong.
The
purpose of any ideology: to give to crime a noble motivation.
Let’s
dream! From dreams arises progress. Big dreams, bright future.
So
go to sleep, because sleep is the condition of dreams.
The
ideal of environmental parties: an ergonomic electric chair.
Some
lights, others shine. Most are content to glisten in light conversation.
Any
true revolution is preceded by a great utopia.
You're
asking me to overcome evil, that Satan, but God got only a tie.
You
can support yourself on the air, but you need wings.
Peak
of selfishness: to say to yourself: "Nice to meet you."
Some
wrecks dives with sail up.
If
we had been truly believers we would died more reluctant to go to heaven.
An
ass galloping arouses laughter.
Are
there dreams in the sleep of death?
If
we get to heaven, we become fellow villagers with God?
We
see the universe as an estate, where God is the castellan and we beggars at the
gate.
What
beautifully the eagle flies, looking for a corpse…
An
error systematically repeated is not longer an error, but a natural law, and we
should treat it as such. Our mentality was wrong.
Perhaps
chaos is ordered, but incomprehensible.
To
see through the darkness of your ignorance! It would be something!
If
one can dream in the sleep of death, it would be a shame to wake the dead.
Aphrodite
was born from sea foam. It is natural that beauty to be fleeting and futile.
And
shards shine, if are properly illuminated.
Horns
keep better the crown on one’s head.
When
you are trampled, learn better the other’s value.
We
owe everything to the serpent. Without it, Eva would walk barefoot through
heaven even today.
A
mountain seems bigger as its abyss are deeper.
I
keep a pleasant opinion about me, if I look in the mirror without glasses.
For
many believers, God is an institution providing charitable services.
Sometimes
we use the term "honestly speaking". Rarely!
We
are like rivers: ever changing, yet the same.
Life
means greedy. Literally and figuratively.
When
life languishes, years running.
History
textbook: human errors strung like laundry to dry.
And
he who hates needs people as feedstock.
Do
not be surprised that he is not the first according to our order. He has his
order.
He
is brilliant; shines without light.
"In
the beginning it was the word." We are victims of words.
If
you help someone in trouble he will remember of you only when he will be again
in trouble.
The
head is where the mouth is - the most important human organ.
Quickly
pass the days - hours pass more slowly.
We
are envious of dragons, because they have more heads, not to think with them,
but to eat.
Everything
that occurs spontaneously disappear spontaneously.
A
vocation objector will be of left when the political system is of right and
vice versa.
Exegetes
say that Napoleon peed in bed when he was a baby, although it is not the reason
of his fame.
Children
do not repeat the mistakes of their parents; they do some original others, but
according with the education received from parents.
Beauty
is superficial;
not
ugliness.
We
cannot appreciate the talent of a future writer by how he write
calligraphically during the first form pupil.
Entrepreneur
is one who sees a gateway, where others see a wall.
We
prefer to borrow our ugliness to others than to imitate their beauty.
A
prophet is not a visionary, but a man of his times. Visionaries are some of
real philosophers.
Compared
to the sage men of his time, the prophet is one who has the ability of
communicating with people.
A truly democratic country would already be bankrupt.
The friends you have chosen are like you. The one who
blames them is like a dog barking in front of the mirror.
Homo sapiens appeared 500,000 years ago, but
disappeared.
If I did something wrong, I ask to be burned, but only
after my death.
The level of development of a country is given by the
way in which people know how to cooperate.
We both
were wrong, but I can give to myself extenuating circumstances.
An inconvenience is a trifle if it happens to a
strangers, a tragedy if it affects us and something expected to happen to a
closed person.
A free people can not afford to talk about forbidden
things, for fear of losing his freedom.
Nothing is more terrible than another’s luck.
Even in war there are more important things than war.
There is not a great
difference between Schopenhauer’s "living will" and the Bergson’s
"Élan vital". A greater difference is between life and what they
think about it.
Enthusiasm - en-theon-siasmos - is the state in which
God dwells in you.
In the absence of the husband / wife it is good enough
a pet dog. In all cases a proper leash is necessary.
Practical tips:
- At
the entrance to a restaurant, those who leave have priority;
- At
the entrance to the bathroom of the same restaurant, those who enter have
priority.
Promenade:
some couples walk together and talk separately (at
mobile phones).
If God knew laugh, he would be more convincing.
I pray to St. Catherine to protect me.
(She is the
protector of fools)
Greeks gesture a lot when talking. Their movements are
not symmetrical so that you can believe that saying YES with one hand and NOT
with the other.
It is so hardly to accept
the friends’ mistakes as accepting ours . . .
We love animals able to be
trained to love us.
The unlearned people
believe that they are intelligent, because they cope with little science.
Hippocrates was not a hypocrite. There are however
many hypocrites who claim to be followers of Hippocrates.
The
ring with stone symbolizes the chain and rock that Prometheus was bound which.
Why we wear it on a finger, I do not know!
Help
to raise a man who fell, if he can walk.
We
have great disputes on minor problems and small disputes on major problems.
When I was young, I was in a hurry, although I had my
whole life ahead. Now, as the remained time contracted, I learned to be
patient.
The words of elders are old, but not obsolete, because
they are eternal truths. Young people’s words are ephemeral and woe for those
who do not make a difference.
Some are cultural, some only use it for themselves.
Never the same!
In
life, you can do anything, provided you stop in time.
You are important only when people prevent by you.
Noah's Ark was built by amateurs; the Titanic by
professionals.
"Don Juan" was created by men. A "Dona
Juanita," written by women would have the same success?
It's easy to think that you can everything. That's
enough to do nothing.
Reason is predictable; therefore, it can be countered.
Passion is unpredictable. It can be successful because
of surprise.
Man thinks only if he has a dissatisfaction.
"Mens sana in corpore sano". We are born
healthy; Head mistakes make us sick.
The problem of overweight: "What to eat, to
weaken?
A dagger hanging by the neck is meant to draw attention
to the surrounding area and not on God.
The outlaw is, to some extent, a suicide, because he
has to hide a part of his identity.
And the flowers of weeds can be beautiful.
"After all lies will be forgotten, the truth
remains", i.e. nothing.
You matures as life forces you to do. Age does not
have much importance.
We are accused of duplicity: think
one way and do something else. In fact, we are double-duplicitous: think
something, say something else and do nothing.
Love
of wisdom - defining philosophy – supposes the absence of belief that we
already own it, since we are still looking for it.
Only stupidity is natural; all
others are acquired during life.
A writer writes what he
thinks. The reader interprets what he read, as he thinks.
People hope the animals will
understand them, because they can not understand the language of animals.
Light-year is a unit of measurement for space.
For time we
may have a dark-year, filled with events.
Today, many people know how to read and write, but few
can understand what they read.
The idea that you have luck, makes you to think that
you are what you are not. Only bad luck can tell you what you really are.
Shakespeare is great not because he asked the question
"To be or not to be?", but because he had the wisdom to not respond
to it.
I wonder if the Final Judgement has already been, and
what happens to us are its consequences.
Love is sung when it can not be tasted.
All people are keen of wisdom.
We always want what miss us.