Showing posts with label Thoughts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Thoughts. Show all posts

Friday, February 24, 2017

All That Philosophy - a poem with respect

Deep dreamless sleep

By Vladislav Luchianov

Clocklike professor Kant destroyed pure reason.
His transcendental book is still in use
In academia. However, few have read it,
And even less have understood.

Arthur, a gloomy recluse of that noisy Frankfurt,
Said all is will and nothing to decide.
The life is pain, the art is kind of medicine,
The better path is nothingness and maybe he was right.

Friday, October 21, 2016

Goethe: "Every extraordinary person has a mission"

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Every extraordinary person has a particular mission which he is called upon to fulfill. When he has accomplished it, he is no longer needed on earth in the same form, and Providence uses him for something else...