The deepest insights are often, or perhaps always, the simplest realizations. “The human only becomes human among humans.” A statement...
Who still owns the truth today? The world has become incredibly complex in the last 100 years. The longing for...
«Dos moi pou sto kai kino ten gae» – Give me a place to stand and I shall move the earth. In his mathematical treatises, the Greek mathematician Pappus quotes Archimedes here. This is how the latter illustrates the law of the lever. With a fixed point and a long...
Over on a somewhat isolated shelf in my family’s kitchen, you’ll find the cookbooks. They don’t get much attention, except...
Can an image move? Or is not an image precisely that which only appears at the very end, as a...
Angels always appear when people encounter border or boundary situations. […] At such moments they are most likely to be noticed and recognized. Many painters, past and present, have tried their hand at depicting angels. They all agree on the main characteristics, even if they emphasize one or the other...
Humanity has steadily continued to develop its moral consciousness over the past centuries – solidarity, respect for others, human dignity,...
The other day, we were looking at photos from our vacation, and one had slipped in of grandma and grandpa...
If we are all islands, it is the water that connects us. To get to you, I have to move, in the water. I swim or go by boat. I can paddle or let myself drift. Either way, the water carries me to you and to us. I go out...
Karma is about shifting responsibility from heaven to yourself. In this, you become the very maker of your own destiny....
What can philosophy do about uncertainty? This is what two journalists of the ‹NZZ› asked Peter Sloterdijk a few years...
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