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PHILOSOPHERS

Briefing
Use Pharaoh for 'where and what'.
LITTLE girls can be the nicest things that happen to people. [With Allan Beck]

A MAN SNATCHES the first kiss, pleads for the second ... accepts the fifth and endures all the rest. [With Helen Rowland]

NO WICKEDNESS proceeds on any grounds of reason. [Livy]


DON'T LAUGH out loud at something that appears absurd or ridiculous - it could have been said by some philosopher earlier. [With Oliver Goldsmith]

IT IS QUITE true what Philosophy says: Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget that it must be lived forwards somehow. [With Soren Kierkegaard]

YOU CAN forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition; but to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes ... would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage. [Robert Louis Stevenson]


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Briefing on hawks and chickens and some arts

Briefing cat "IF WE VALUE independence, if we are disturbed by the growing conformity of knowledge, of values, of attitudes, which our present system induces, then we may wish to set up conditions of learning which make for uniqueness, for self-direction, and for self-initiated learning." [Carl Rogers]

SOME ART galleries contain works of independing guys. Some of these guys were considered insane and devilish at first. Pablo Picasso was called that by critics the first decade, at any rate. The art of Munch and Matisse was too different from ruling tastes of critics too - at first.
      
Thinking
As a matter of fact, one's inner, guiding light supports or destroys life.
Thus, if you value independence in life and important things to express, try not to rest on the acclaim of chickens and too set critics. One has to be bold to be braver than what chickens love and grow up to become. One has to be bold inside to grab truths and live them out. In the end the results of your efforts may be hung up in some gallery of art (figurative or not) - which is not home.
       It's a mistake to judge the artist by his clothes, that book by its cover. He may study hard and walk about in jeans and look shabby for it. Inside there may be greatness and purity all along all the same. Don't misjudge the artist. He shows a part of not depending too much.
       Thus: be careful, once again.

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Sage Words

Venus
Venus from Milo
ON A VISIT to Paris, the US comedian Will Rogers (1879-1935) sent a picture postcard of the Venus de Milo to his young niece and wrote on the back:
      "See what will happen to you if you don't stop biting your fingernails."

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