Cristache Gheorghiu
A Kind of Reflections
Preliminary Edition
They say that only great men could have great defects. It is not my case, so that not longer censure me so much.
Verba volant, scripta manent
Writing finds its justification in the
ephemerality of speaking.
Today, things are different.
Speaking can be recorded
in many ways.
And not only the words.
Paper is only a support
among many others.
Besides,
it is expensive.
Copy rights
Some people wrote on paper
and multiplied the papers.
Others wrote inside me.
Unfortunately, they have problems
with the multiplication.
Or, maybe, fortunately.
Progress
While beginner as skier
I used to be very glad
for every progress.
With every year
I became more and more
good at it.
But, as much I were advancing
as smaller room for progress
was remaining for me.
I was discontent, of course,
and if I ever fall down,
it was a tragedy
for a week.
The moral:
the progress may
prejudice our happiness.
Modern Poetry
For some time past,
the poetry became prose,
although the reverse would
have been much better.
Or, maybe, I looked rather much
in the mirror of water,
where everything is seen
inversely.
Sometimes, it trembles.
The water, of course.
And the mirror, too.
Maybe just this is its beauty.
Of the poetry!
The prose from it
is what trembles.
What gorgeous would be inversely!!!
Greenland and global heating
One wishes Greenpeace to be an ideal
and everyone to struggle for it.
I wonder!
They found it long time ego
and even gave a name to it.
Greenland they called it,
although it was almost white.
To follow its green destine
does not seem to be an ideal.
The Virgin Sofia
„Philosophy keeps its virginity
in spite of numerous violations.”
It was not me writing it, but y Gasset.
So, I declare as platonic
my love to Sofia.
Not for other reason, but
I do not like fruitless gestures.
From sublime to ridicule
Since Socrates till today,
philosophy traversed the full way
from sublime to ridicule.
Probably, at the beginning,
it was not just sublime, but
it proposed to be.
Sublimation means
a transformation
from solid state direct
into a gaseous one.
This is what explains its disparity,
without we could observe it.
What a pity! And we loved it so much. . .
Especially in the fluid state.
New York
New York is fascinating
at the first visit.
At the second one,
an exit gate
you will be searching for.
And if it is to not find it,
a new-Yorker you will become.
With small 'n'
and “VIP” cap.
The Past
Bootless is to close your eyes,
for the past to move away.
Even what you don’t want seeing
clearer appear in your mind.
Better is to assume your deeds,
Learn from the past what can
and, make at least a
happy future.
The talent
The talent of many artists
consumed itself
during the admitting exam.
The rules of play
The rules of play
are kept in plays.
The politicians do not know
how to play,
unfortunately.
Don’t translate every word
As everywhere,
a ticket toward Santa Fe
is more expensive single as
return.
There are also some cheaper tickets
for children and the elder
persons.
All these are true,
as long you don’t translate
all words
and leave them
as they are.
Santa Fe, for example!
The Way of Vacancy
“Route 66” - the way of dream,
vacancy's dream.
Chicago is behind.
Santa Monica is forward,
in mind and in spirit.
The opposite is backward to house and work.
Old memories kept in the song as well.
Disjunction
If Marx had been a scientist,
he would have experimented
his system on animals, first.
George Orwell did it in literature, but
without effect in politics.
The moral: politics and literature are disjunctive.
Shades and lights
A beam of light is necessary
for make an object to shine.
Nothing glitters, instead,
in the dazzling light of day.
A little shade would be
useful, then.
Yes and no
People express their agreement
in different ways, accordingly with
their language: yes, da, oui
and many others.
The disagreement, instead
contain at least an 'n'.
Is it accidentally?
An accident
A car, named Romania,
left the road and
plunged in abyss.
It was August 23, 1944.
What nice it seems to be!
Mountains and valleys
were going by us . . .
And what pleasant it was . . .
But suddenly,
our smooth fly broke itself.
A terrible jolt followed and
finally, even the car
disintegrated.
The precipice used to have a bottom.
What a tragedy!
Who could be think?
A riddle
The percent of wrongdoers
is equal on the earth.
There are bank-breakers only where
there are banks.
No banks, no bank-breakers.
What a clever boy I am!
In communism there were not thieves,
as there was nothing to be stolen.
And then,
the wrongdoing
what they deal with?
Guess my riddle!
Do not say that all of them became politicians. There were not so much rooms.
Choices
It is good when
some alternative solutions
are possible.
Even water is a good alternative of wine,
but not every day.
Haiku to George, my friend
Inspiring dreams,
capricious times,
grape.
Humpty-Dumpty
You win
when lose,
if know
how to arise.
The Real Man
Between extreme egoism
and extreme altruism,
the real man finds
his own way.
The egoism is natural;
the altruism is acquired;
the way, of course,
wretched.
Destiny?
From an utopia
to another,
we are drifting
endlessly.
Feminine ambitions
Women
wishing to be
equal with men
have not
ambition.
Squander
With all the penury of intelligence, people do not stop to waste the little one that they have, trying to learn what is their sense on the earth, when it is evident for anyone that they do not have any.
Intelligence
At ants, bees and others like them, collective intelligence is more efficient than the individual one.
One by one, they do not have mind almost at all. Their societies, instead, are complex organized and work perfectly.
At mankind is the contrary: the individuals are intelligent, but in collectivity they are self-destructive.
It seems that too much intelligence could harm.
Or, maybe, the word intelligence is not well defined.
T-shirt
T-shirts
were invented by
Venus de Milo.
Science of Politics
If a science of politics had existed,
the politicians would not have existed.
Great Heat
On the telegraph wires
the birds put on notes
the heat of the day.
What a great things the technology is!
Without wires,
there were not notes, and
without notes,
we could not
understand
birth's song.
Can it be true?
What a heat. . .
They want us to be uniform
Because we are different,
they dress us in uniforms,
in conveniences,
in rules.
But we are not uniform.
This is why
we wear the uniforms
in different ways.
The way
The shorter route
between two peaks of mountains
is not rectilinear.
You need to descent from the first one,
in order to ascend on the other.
After a victory,
you cannot
jump directly
in another victory.
The one who thinks to do it
did not really know neither of them.
Ideas
Bad ideas are good
. . . as fertilizer
for philosophy.
Civilization
What could we say about the society in which
the civilized man
is weak
in face of
a rude one?
Without wings
The wings of any society are its intellectuals.
„Otez les ailes à un papillon; c’est une chenille” (Chamfort).
This is what
Romania became
after the Russians
decimated its
intellectuals.
From the childhood
Any person forms his mentality during
his childhood,
especially as adolescent.
The rest is varnish.
Let me know what you have learnt then
and I say who you are.
Let me know what you read then
and I say what you are.
The “happy” universe of childhood
Ah, how sharp my knees were aching,
when I used to fall
and how much I wanted
to grow elder.
The grown-ups
do not knock at
their knees, I observed.
Instead, they are ingrates. They assert to be the only ones having problems, that only their problems are count, that only they are stressed, even – as a matter of fact – they are those stressing us.
Passions
Passion is immanent to every person.
The hazard make from him
an artist or killer,
scientist or politician,
poet or thieve.
But, ”Le hasard ne favorise que les esprits préparés”. (Pasteur)
- And who deals with spirit?
- The hazard as well.
This is so, because man is first spirit and ultimately matter.
- And if it would be inverse?
- Inverse we all are . . . what we are.
Mafia
Mafia?
A naivety!
We nationalized it.
Kant and us
Königsberg is the town where Kant lived.
Kaliningrad is the name that
Stalin gave it
for glorifying Kalinin.
Who said that want to get rid of communism?
Maybe of Kant!
It seems that some things must be de-kant-ed.
Or, maybe de-kalinin-ed.
Crucial Moments
There are moments when
people think that,
in just that moment,
the intelligence
came down
on their heads.
It is true,
not all of them,
but always
much too many.
How could we call such moments?
But such people?
Inhabitants
In some towns, I liked the museums,
in other ones, people.
In some towns, only people liked me.
In every town I liked something.
In some towns, I didn't like the museums,
in other ones, I didn't like people.
There is not town in which
everything liked me.
To like me, it would be build accordingly with my test, although I did not define it, yet.
There are towns. There are villages.
They are dwelt.
People call them localities.
If the localities are not dwelt, they are said “archaeological sites”.
I would not like to
live in an
archaeological site,
not even as
exhibit.
As unique inhabitant,
I should feel
guilty for
all errors,
which surely
exist.
We are the amount of our errors.
It is good that,
at least,
we are something,
if we cannot be
somebody.
I am somebody
I sacrificed what I owned,
for acquire what I wanted.
I acquired what I wanted,
and I became somebody else.
I am poorer for what I lost,
but do not regret what I became.
If both of then I had had,
I would have been
a different one,
if this would be
possible.
Someone else, instead of me,
maybe would do. But that one
could not be me.
And, if was not to be someone else,
I am glad to be, at least, someone.
Between altruism and egotism
The struggle for existence is the essence of any being.
From the smallest cell to the most complex organism, life is an endless endeavour for an individual's betterment based on his environment.
It stops only when he exhausts his resources, or meets with a similar individual with whom he has to share the same resources.
An individual's ideal is a selfish one. Accepting the other is subsequently. It comes from the contact with the environment and man learns it during his life.
Egoism is genetic.
Altruism is acquired.
Between extremes
If someone had taught us what
the right way is,
we should not have searched
the true
between two extreme
equal impossible.
Paradise? How is that?
We have a very fecund imagination
concerning the horror of Hell.
Instead, we are awkward
imagining Paradise.
A question of specialization.
Society
Man lives in group and dies alone.
The death the religion deal with.
So, the individual's problem is solved.
The life? Nobody deals with it.
This is why we have so many
social problems.
From Chaos
The Chaos was,
for the beginning,
namely something
without shape
and limits.
Something in which,
albeit anything is possible,
nothing occurs.
But it was God who came.
He first made skies and earth,
so he draw a
separating line
between them.
So far,
he didn't created,
but delimited.
Nowhere is said,
neither in Bible or
somewhere else
that someone would
created Chaos.
In all religions,
Chaos existed before.
The Pan-creator,
improperly named so,
did not created,
but separated.
Drawing a border
between sky and earth,
he created two restrictions:
- earth no longer be sky;
- sky no longer be earth.
And things did not stop here.
Carrying on,
he separated
light from dark,
earth from waters etc.
He enforced
limits after limits,
restrictions after restrictions.
And did not stop neither here.
On smaller and smaller spaces,
he organised the mater
in more and more odd entities,
even small monsters
Among them, we are, as well.
He obliged us to fight
against everything around us,
even each others.
The limits imposed
by the Creator
have became
more and more
suffocating.
And all these
are to be
agreeable to us.
Entropy
- The engine of life
is inequality.
- I know,
a question of entropy.
- This is for
not any people
to catch the idea.
- What democracy would be then?
I and he
Any “I”
wants to extend his border
over his neighbour's one.
To integrate it, if possible.
“We” is an abstract notion
existing only in grammars.
“You” do not exist.
There are only “I” and “He”.
“He” is the one
who must be assimilate.
“I” is the only entity with sense.
The art of negotiation
God, make to rain,
and I will do an oblation
Burglar's belief
Help me, God,
maybe they will
not catch me!
Religion / Church
With all church’s opposition,
people want their religion back.
And they will get it.
Religion?
Something that gives sense to life,
in which one can believe.
Schism
If Jesus had realized that
he will provoke a schism,
he would have studied
the Science of Politics.
Or, maybe, botanic,
as at herbage is the same.
Alternatives
Stupid, but happy? / Clever and unhappy?
There is not a middle way?
- Not as long you didn't find it.
- Are you being a clever?
- Some people think they already find it.
- These ones are only ignorant.
- Don't you have a more reasonable way?
- To search for is your destiny.
- Mankind will find a reasonable way only after they will exhaust all others possibilities, and these ones are infinite.
- I know it. Someone else said it, it's true, in a different context.
- I have an idea: to recognize that we are stupid.
- Your optimism is exaggerated.
Tax for profit
The one
who works
pays.
The one
who plays truant
receives.
Be blessed the
name of state!
Law
Infringements
could not exist
without laws.
Here is something deserving to think about.
Pedagogic
Pedagogy is a gift.
Some ones own it,
others don’t.
The universities making teachers should verify the applicant's talent, as those of music do.
Becoming
“Man begun as a worm”,
Geoffroy said it, in an
optimist-evolutionist
vision.
The reciprocally would be to arrive there,
having in view that
we started from
Creator’s hands
as superior beings.
Personally,
I prefer a more static variant:
to remain men,
if possible!
Pseudo-haiku at seaside
Long neck,
the head away,
giraffe.
A Ludic One
We think differently
But laugh similarly
When laughing.
In Theatre
Camels
don't play theatre,
albeit their faces
are very expressive.
Nona
(the ninth part)
During the Middle Eve,
it was the part of the harvest
due to the feudal.
What a time . . .
The Right Way
- The church show us the right way.
- Even in the market orientated economy?
- Especially there.
- How is that?
- By priests' example.
Their avarice is remarkable.
Dilettantes
The writers of a single book
remain dilettantes?
Still, some of them are famous.
Fiction
Fairy tales teach children
ideas difficult to
explain and understand
in other ways.
Literary fiction
does the same for
some grown-ups.
How we read?
Following the advice of Spain's ambassador,
George Sand lead Chopin
in Majorca, even its climate was
improper for his healthiness,
in that season.
Chopin, immigrant from Poland,
was not informed.
Spain's ambassador
was doing touristic publicity, probably.
He didn't care for a poor Polish
about whom he didn't feel that
will become a celebrity.
Instead, George Sand ought to know
the climate in Baleare Islands.
If yes, her gesture was criminal.
If not, it means that she was ignorant.
Everything I read now,
is subordinated to the question
“how clever / informed used to be
the author?”
Dilemma
Some persons anger on me,
although I do not say nothing new.
On the contrary,
I say what they knew before,
even better than me.
It seems that just this is what annoy they,
but I still do not know why
they angry on me.
The writer Montesquieu
If a graduated from a secondary school were asked what he knows about Montesquieu, he probably will answer something like: French writer, 18 century, “Persian Letters”. If he has a good memory, maybe he will mention “The Spirit of Laws”, about which he will not be able to say much, because he did not read it. It is a book for specialists. Montesquieu was a magistrate.
As a recognised classic of universal literature, nobody impugns his qualities and is contented with what people say about. Still, at a more attentive analyze, a paradox appears. From the literary point of view, “Persian Letters” is far from a masterpiece. It is not a monument of the literature able to justify the presence of the author on the list of great celebrities. Montesquieu himself would have been very malcontent if all his activity had been limited at this book of about 200 pages.
He was passionately fond of philosophy, disciple of Hobbs and Lock, and proposed himself to apply their ideas in the society of his time, which he did in “The Spirit of Laws”. His implication in literature comes from his efforts for convey these ideas toward groups of people as large as possible.
“Letters” are small essays and only the titles give the impression of a correspondence. Without them, Montesquieu would remain a magistrate-philosopher unknown by literary world. Instead, only with “Persian Letters” he would entered not even in literature.
His complex personality make from him a celebrity, because – in the last analysis – a writer is someone having something to say, namely someone who want to communicate with people, let he be an magistrate.
Philo-Sophia
It is beyond doubt that philosophy is fruitless.
The problem is that we cannot live
without it.
This doesn't mean that we all are sage.
Not, not, with the sapience we extricate.
Love for sapience
is what trouble us.
This is so because
we always want
what we do not own.
Scholar philosophy
Scholar philosophy is something
as a ray of light
reflected by some heads
without inner light.
Dali
- I heard that Dali's art
would be a form of resistance
against the madness.
- I thought that
it is madness itself.
Paradigm
Every civilisation
has its paradigm,
subsist al long as
its paradigm is credible
and disappears when it burns up
its paradigm.
Felix
To be happy (felix) meant in Latin language
to be fruitful and full of success.
A possible achievable goal!
Today, to be happy means
to be flooded with what you
suppose to enjoy you
without any effort.
As wishes always exceed the possibilities,
happiness becomes an objective
unfeasible.
Precision
A clock shows exactly the time
twice a day, if it does not work.
A working clock shows the time
approximately.
Which one do you prefer?
Genial Ideas
Some genial ideas
could come us by drinking;
never after.
Stupidity
Stupidity is not sagacity with the sign minus, but the lack of them, as the darkness is not a different sort of light, but its lack.
This is why the great mistakes belong to the great smart people and not to the great idiots.
The Saint Sophia
It seems that sagacity was holy, formerly.
Traces
The Romanian territory,
was crossed by many
waves of barbarians
and non-barbarians.
All of them leaved traces.
Our opinions about them are different.
We are proud with some
but are shame with others.
We have fellow feeling for some
and scorn for others.
We even hate some.
Everything accordingly to their traces.
Mediocrity
It is much gravely to have mediocre illusions
than to live mediocre.
For a mediocre life
there are excuses and justifications.
Not for the mediocrity of the illusions.
Teachers
Extremely, there are two kinds of teachers:
- Those that teach the children things that they did not know in reality, like those for history and geography;
- Those that experienced first what they have to teach, like those for physics.
The first ones can be congenial; the others usually are boring.
But the most attractive are those that do not know what are they talking about.
Schools of Philosophy
The schools of philosophy consumes intellectual energy of the students, coaching them in handling a specific language, making him, in this way, inapt for free thinking. The future philosopher excludes himself from the society and society, in his turn, doesn't really need of such “specialist”.
Opinions
When you are not sure on your ideas,
do not over-solicit your friends;
prove them with those that
are not tolerant with you
Verification
If you want to verify your ideas,
try to expound them to someone;
you will correct them even
before exposing.
How the ideas come us
For some things
we have to struggle:
for money;
for women / men;
for social positions
and what not.
Only the ideas come alone,
unbidden.
Under one condition:
to had struggled for something.
Corollary:
you have those ideas that
things you have struggled for
gave to you.
Differences
What makes us to be different
are not the truths which
we succeeded to learn and
are known by many others,
but the ways through
which we arrived to them.
Trust in ourselves
We often know
what other people
want for us.
Rarely we know
what ourselves
want.
And when we think
that we know
we are deceived.
Old or Eternal?
Some things are old,
other eternal: concepts, ideas.
The eternal ones
do not become obsolete.
How we discern them?
This is one of the art of life.
For some people it is a gift.
Others learn to do it
during their life.
Some sooner,
some slower,
some never.
For the last ones,
everything seems to be obsolete,
even the future.
Freedom
The condition of freedom
is the absence of
any dependence.
The dependence is born when
you pay the offer with your soul,
as you couldn't control
your temptations.
„Non-understandable” artists
Art is a way of communication
with specific means.
Everybody agree with
this general assertion.
The communication exists,
when the idea issued by emitter
arrive safe and sound
till the receiver.
The means are different and,
due to them,
he is a great or small artist.
But, if he doesn't succeed to communicate,
It means that he doesn't exist
as an intelligent being.
This is why the pretension to be non-understood is a lie.
The Social Man
As we live in society,
our thoughts must take a
transmissible shape.
Sagacity Claims Detachment
We achieve the abilities
in contact with things.
We manage ourselves
in the problems of life.
Still, we achieve the sagacity
only after we detach ourselves
from all these.
But we can detach from them
only after we become expert
in resolving them,
which supposes that
we thoroughly studied
the field in all
its details.
Forms of express
Artists look for new
forms of express.
The young ones do it even before
to have something to express.
Originality at any price
The most unfitted means
to become original
is to want this.
Love and timidity
Timidity denotes
a kind of spiritual noblesse.
Rarely,
maybe never,
the real lover
can express their love.
Love is noblesse itself.
Maybe this is why
it is so difficult
to express.
Poet's Love
The poet speaks easily
about love
because he didn't really
know it.
Excess of sexuality
The excess of sexuality
in the nowadays art and literature
reflects a tendency of
coming back to nature.
Coming back to Nature
For mankind,
coming back to nature
means coming back
to animalism.
We are fully aware of this?
If yes, it means to recognise
that we make a mistake.
When?
Dreams
The dreams are ours.
The reality is of everyone.
Respect others' dreams.
Conscience of Conscience
We are unconscious
if we imagine that
we have the conscience of
our conscience.
If we had been conscious,
we would have built our future
in a different way.
Technological development
We accuse the technological development for
man's moving off from
philosophy and religion.
But technological development
always existed.
The wheel invention and using the fire
were even more revolutionary
then electronics or
cosmos conquest.
Does it means that primitive man
was more philosopher then us?
“Philo” maybe!
“Sofos”? I doubt.
It seems that, in our evolution,
a point of optimum existed.
If yes, that was the moment
in which we was wrong.
Here is a paradox:
to make the greatest mistake
in the best moment
of thought.
Portrait in the Mirror
I am looking in a mirror and see
the portrait of a man that sing.
I do not recognise myself.
Besides, I do not sing.
It is in Picasso's style.
I do not recognize the melody either.
I have a hope: maybe the mirror is broken.
It's a blessing that it is not a Rubens.
The gift and the girl
I knew a very revolted girl
because people used to admire
a famous singer.
She could not be so gifted, in her opinion,
as both of them had been class mates
in primary school.
Consequently,
they have equal rights.
Decisions
Decision are as easy to take
as little you understand
the complexity of the problem.
The Rest
A worker may repose himself
by reading a book.
An intellectual may repose himself
by making a manual activity.
Let me know how you repose
and I will say you who are.
This is not true in case you
repose at work.
Sword
It is easier to pull out
the sword from its scabbard,
than replace it.
Maybe I read it
sometime, in my childhood,
but what you find by yourself
seems to be wiser.
Concentration
Do not let the up-and-downs of life
to take hold on your thought.
Keep your thinking
clean and free.
Only so you can lead it
toward what it is worthy.
Style
Style is not a supplement, a hat,
but the essence.
Thinking
Our thinking
is like the earth
in which the ideas germinate.
The ideas comes to us from
contacts with our fellows
or from books.
Many seeds perishes
as they do not find
the adequate earth.
Reciprocal statement is not true.
Receptivity
We pick up only those ideas
that graft itself on the
knowledge existing there,
like a Lego.
Some older ideas are stimulated in this way.
Paradoxically, we call the new ideas
as being suggestions,
while the old ones as original.
Life
The end of life
is part of
life.
Artistic Currents
In any epoch, there is a
dominant artistic current.
We can identify it by
its form of express.
The fond is eternal.
This is why,
artist's enlist, without discernment,
into a fashionable current
does not achieve
value..
Love
If we knew
why we love,
we would not love
any longer.
Maybe!
Love is blind
One says that love is blind.
I think that we are blind.
Love comes where
our wit cannot reach.
Bluntness
As great is
a bluntness,
as difficult is
to refute it.
The Poetics of bluntness
There is shoddy poesy.
I did not hear about a poetic stupidity,
although some people try.
Nobility
Many people throw off
the nobility in risible
without realise that
themselves become
ignoble.
Artistic currents
Some artistic currents are like the fashion:
they obsolete themselves and
disappear without trace.
Other ones invent new possibilities
of expressing.
Modernism, post-modernism etc,
are not currents, but
only periods of questing,
unfortunately sterile.
Culture
The culture (of a person or people)
is visible in the capacity of expressing
complex notions.
Infinite
Between small infinite and the great one
our world exists,
as an infinitesimal quantity.
The Error
On our way toward anywhere,
the errors are inevitable.
The success depend on
how soon we recognise
and correct them.
Russians outside
Why there are so many Russian people throughout the world?
It's because, learning English language by ear, they confuse Moscow with “must go”, and leave.
And how they succeed outside?
One of their founders had a predestined name: Dolgoruki. It means “long hand”, an expression for thieves.
The good example
Sometimes, we correct ourselves
thanks to bad example;
almost never,
thanks to the good one.
Evolution
You cannot develop yourself
without changing yourself.
Start with undershirt clothes.
Opposed
Among those five fingers of a hand, only one is opposed. Without it, the hand would not be hand, but foot.
What we would become with more opposing fingers?
With the all ones would not be possible, as it would be a foot, but for walking backward.
Modesty?
Modesty?
Let's be seriously;
where did you see it?
Self-pride?
Without it we would not exist.
Present
We are between
“it was” and “it will be”.
What it is between them
makes the difference between
“it may become” and
“it could have became”
(if it had …ed).
The Europeans
The Europeans began to be
heretics
and finished as
erotic.
Inopportune laud
One day, I lauded somebody for something really meritorious, in my opinion.
But the man was accustomed to be fawn upon and considered my prise an offence face to his grandeur.
I understood then the fact for which I lauded him was an accident in his life. Or, maybe, his life was an accident. It depends from which angle you are looking.
No matter of the angle, my gesture was a mistake, for which I cannot excuse myself, as it means to commit a new error.
Gold?
Heraclitus said: “Between gold and straws, the donkey prefers draws”.
Nothing new under the sun.
The arriviste
An arriviste tried to climb on the top of the pyramid, removing those from his way, not keeping account that they had built the pyramid. He succeeded, but – making leave those more valuable than him – the pyramid became so tiny, that it disappeared.
Philosophizing
Every people philosophize;
the instruments are different.
Difference
There is a difference
between genius and stupidity:
genial people are limits.
Eternal returning
The old Greeks intuited the infinite only concerning the time, but not for the space.
The space used to be finite for them. Hence, the idea that, in the infinity of time, all possible combinations of the atoms – existing in a finite number – will repeat itself in an infinite number of times.
After more than two thousand of years, Nietzsche caught the idea too. Still, he lost sight of the fact that, in the meantime, science had progressed.
Contagion
Only diseases are transmissible,
not the healthiness.
Good deeds are not contagious too.
If something have caught on you,
and it is not lipstick,
you must think.
Probably it is
dangerous.
The amour
It is easy to fall in love.
More difficult is to confess it.
Friends
Friends are like us;
after all, we selected them.
When you blame them,
be careful.
Look at the dog
barking at herself
in the front of a mirror.
The Defects of Virtues
“Everyone has the defects
of his virtues.” (George Sand)
Beware of great virtuous ones!
Music and Speaking
Music is the language of sentiments.
Speaking is the language of ration.
Programmatic music and poetic speaking bring nearer the sentiments to ration, but move away the both from the essences.
Wish
Be careful what you wish for.
It's possible to come true.
Robotics
From Sumerian mythology, we learn that the gods, bored with working for satisfying daily needs, thought to find a way to solve the problem.
Then, Enki had a genial idea: from clay and water, he made a being destined to work instead of them. Here is how robotics appeared.
Today, the robots think themselves they are gods.
There is a risk in everything.
Multi-theism
Having more gods and legends, some of them contradictory, antic people were ready to accept the existence of more possibilities. This is why they were more receptive, more enlighten and open minded.
Cults
The moderns replaced
the antic cult of phallus with
that of the cannon.
Their ideograms are alike.
Both of them represent the power.
The difference is more a ethical one:
the first is creative while
the second is destructive.
Freedom
Every person is free to think anything he wants, but he is not allowed to do all what he thinks, if his deeds could injure his fellows.
Well, what is freedom, then?
Dragons
In fairy tales, the dragons have more heads.
In real life, they have more tails.
Conscience
I want to meet that pacifist American, who abandon his job and renounce of the wage, because he realised that some products of the plant in which he work are used in an unjust war.
Art
Art must be understood for conveying something.
What would be a novel written in an inexistent language, or a theatre in which the actors stay unmoved on the stage and utter non-intelligible sounds?
Dissertation
In some of most savant texts, the author finishes his dissertations with a proverb, in order to confirm the accuracy of his logical demonstration.
He loses sight of the fact that, in this way, he proves that people's wisdom used to know for ages what he has just found out.
Hope
Communism
deprived the riches of the wealth,
but could took
their spirit.
From the poor it took the all:
the hope
Ache
The ache is only
a warning signal.
It says us that
something is not all right
and we ought to take
urgent measures.
Without it,
we would be less informed.
Suffering means a longer ache.
If it is one of the soul,
it means that we
should have treated it
long time ago.
But never is too late.
Uter sensu
In stricto sensu, you see too narrow.
In lato sensu, you don’t see too wide,
but more confuse.
Studies
There are persons without studies,
with some studies and
with higher studies.
There are not persons
with lower studies.
Not by a long chalk!
I played you a trick.
There are!
More that it:
there are lower persons
with higher studies.
Writing and reading
When writing,
you are thinking to
the one who will read.
When reading,
you are not thinking to
the one who has wrote,
but why he wrote.
Assessment
Only the persons upper than us
may assess us.
Not only because they own
the necessary quality,
but because they are the only ones disposed to do it.
Of course, sometime,
Not always.
Force
Did you notice that
powerful persons
have delicate gestures?
The reciprocal statement
is true as well.
Reducing Cure
Did you hear that
one can grow slim by praying
between two abundant
meals.
Philosophic writings
The philosophers relate,
in an arid way,
what everybody used to
know long before.
The Past, as a Shadow
The past begins today.
The one beginning tomorrow
may be different,
as, inside it,
today enter
as well.
Be careful what you do today!
The past will
follow you
in future
as a shadow
Esteem
Between persons
esteeming each other,
a delicate gesture
is repaid by the others
with another delicate gesture.
In the lack of esteem,
such a gesture
is taken by the other
as an opportunity
to take advantage from.
Occidental offer
They changed the offer.
If in the past they
used to export religion,
now, they offer
“man’s rights”.
Wars are what priests generated.
We do not know so far
what homosexuals
will generate.
Acquired Intelligence
Rich person’s stupidity
is more evident.
Poor person has to struggle
for life. In this way,
he acquires some
abilities.
Unfortunately,
he loses them if enrich.
The Limits of the Reason
Mathematics, most rational
among sciences, invented
irrational numbers.
It did not want, but succeeded in
demonstrating that
ration has limits.
Partnership
Sometimes,
Usually after a long suffering,
Good men join together
In face of a major
Danger.
The bad ones do it any time
an opportunity appears.
(In the lack of it, they will invent one.)
And the communication between them is different.
The first ones need lasting talks.
The second ones come to an agreement at a glance.
Flat Land / Mountain
People from flat lands, as they do not have something to prop up their view, deal with what the proximity offer to them. Far away is, for most of them, too away.
The mountain, for those living at its foot, is either an insurmountable. Obstacle, or a temptation, for the most courageous of them. The path climbs or descends, according with the direction of walking.
With the people is the same.
Orient / Occident
Europe needs martyrs
Socrates and Jesus was the first ones.
Buddha and Confucius died at old ages.
Simple things
Nobody troubles his head with
simple things.
That’s why they remain
unapprehended
Golden Mean
The golden mean
doesn’t mean
a half of a measure
Serpent
Symbol of cunning,
the serpent got
this renown
not because
he creeps
but because
he sinuates.
Suspicion
Rarely. A man becomes suspicious after someone deceived him, and – if he does it – it occurs only face to the deceiver.
Generally, naïve people remain naïve.
The really suspicious is the one used to deceive other people. Thinking that the others are like him, he wonder if he is not deceived at his turn.
Friend
Friend is the one who, if you injure him with something, he wonder what he was wrong with you and is read to beg your pardon.
Writing
For the beginning, man used to think only for himself.
When he want to communicate with the others, he invented speaking.
In time, speaking influenced his thinking.
Writing amplified his way of thinking: sequential, rigorous. It is not easy to run over letter, words and phrases to learn what the author wanted to say. Only those well trained can do it.
Now, we are victims of this method.
What about those writing in a different way?
Religion and Civilisation
Religion asks us to be warm-hearted each other.
Civilisation asks us to esteem each other.
Eve
The eve of every holiday
is more important
than the holiday itself.
During the previous days,
people get close to the sacrum,
think of it.
As soon as man starts celebrating,
he forget what he celebrate for.
Accidents
Statistics show that,
in Europe,
more accidents occurs
in Portugal
and much less
in Swede.
It is clear!
Snow is good for traffic.
Children’s mistakes
Children do not repeat
the parents’ mistakes.
They do some different ones,
according with their education
received from the
parents.
Indiscretion
If God has put a curtain
between he and us,
in order to avoid
our indiscrete views.
we should respect his wish.
Atheism
The first Christians
were considered to be
atheists,
because they
did not keep
the rituals
of that time.
The exception
“The exception confirms the rule”,
because specifies
its field of validity.
Traces
Do not look in sky for
the trace of flying bird.
If you are not a statue, yet
If, from the sky,
something that only statues support,
fell down on you,
be quiet.
Only in state of rest a bird chooses the place.
On flying, was only a chance
you was in it way.
We
Only when I say “We”
I feel myself really prideful.