Filosoferen is vragen stellen. Elke vraag leidt tot een nieuwe vraag, waarop misschien wel honderd antwoorden mogelijk zijn. Zonder zekerheden vragenderwijs proberen de richting te vinden in je zoektocht naar bezieling. -Fem Dijkman-
Overzicht
woensdag 30 juli 2014
VERSTOPPERTJE
vrijdag 25 juli 2014
SERVICE
Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.
donderdag 24 juli 2014
NATIONAAL VERDRIET
When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.
maandag 21 juli 2014
AUTOMATISERING
As technology advances, it reverses the characteristics of every situation again and again. The age of automation is going to be the age of 'do it yourself.'
Automation and technology would be a great boon if it were creative, if there were more leisure, more opportunity to engage in raising a family, providing guidance to the young, all the stuff we say we need. America will work if we're all in it together. It'll work when there's a shared sense of destiny. It can be done!
zondag 13 juli 2014
RECHTSONGELIJKHEID
The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
My attitude to peace is rather based on the Burmese definition of peace - it really means removing all the negative factors that destroy peace in this world. So peace does not mean just putting an end to violence or to war, but to all other factors that threaten peace, such as discrimination, such as inequality, poverty.
RECHTSGELIJKHEID
They still don't want to admit to the world that this isn't the best and the fairest and most equal justice system. And that they are guilty of railroading people into jail. They don't want to, or never will, admit these things.
Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable... Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
donderdag 10 juli 2014
VERVOER
Disabled people need more invested in their education, housing, job training, transportation, assistive technology, and independent-living facilities. Governments earn back this investment - and more - by making people with disabilities economically productive citizens.
We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.
woensdag 9 juli 2014
GEVANGEN
I like to help kids, work with kids in detention homes. Don't tell a kid what's right and wrong. He knows what's right and wrong. Find out what his attitude and his aptitude are; try to help him where he wants to go.
Police in China can do whatever they want; after 81 days in arbitrary detention you clearly realise that they don't have to obey their own laws. In a society like this there is no negotiation, no discussion, except to tell you that power can crush you any time they want - not only you, your whole family and all people like you.
I submit that an individual who breaks the law that conscience tells him is unjust and willingly accepts the penalty by staying in jail to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the very highest respect for law.
maandag 7 juli 2014
CONTINUÜM
A child in India grows up with the idea that you have to make choices that will create a better future. In fact, your whole life is a continuum of choices, so the more conscious you are, the greater your life will be.
We are a continuum. Just as we reach back to our ancestors for our fundamental values, so we, as guardians of that legacy, must reach ahead to our children and their children. And we do so with a sense of sacredness in that reaching.
One of the things psychologists used to say was that if you are depressed, anxious or angry, you couldn't be happy. Those were at opposite ends of a continuum. I believe that you can be suffering or have a mental illness and be happy - just not in the same moment that you're sad.
Herman Finkers, dialect:
Blaosmuziek:
Willem Wilmink, echtpaar:
Echtpaar in de trein
voor Wobke
Met de allerliefste in een trein
kan aangenaam en leerzaam zijn.
De prachtig vormgegeven stoel
geeft allebei een blij gevoel.
Voor ‘t verre reisdoel kant en klaar
zit ik dus tegenover haar.
De trein maakt zijn vertrouwd geluid
en zij rijdt vóór-, ik achteruit.
We zien dezelfde dingen wel,
maar ik heel traag en zij heel snel.
Zij kijkt tegen de toekomst aan,
ik zie wat is voorbijgegaan.
Zo is de huwelijkse staat:
de vrouw ziet wat gebeuren gaat,
terwijl de man die naast haar leeft
slechts merkt wat zijn beslag al heeft.
Van nieuw begin naar nieuw begin
rijdt zij de wijde toekomst in,
en ik rij het verleden uit.
En beiden aan dezelfde ruit.
zondag 6 juli 2014
CONTINUÏTEIT
CITAAT:
The desire is thy prayers; and if thy desire is without ceasing, thy prayer will also be without ceasing. The continuance of your longing is the continuance of your prayer.
Every man ought to be inquisitive through every hour of his great adventure down to the day when he shall no longer cast a shadow in the sun. For if he dies without a question in his heart, what excuse is there for his continuance?
Philosophy means nothing unless it is connected to birth, death, and the continuance of life. Anytime you are going to build a society that works, you have to begin from nature and the body.
vrijdag 4 juli 2014
COGNITIE
Our minds influence the key activity of the brain, which then influences everything; perception, cognition, thoughts and feelings, personal relationships; they're all a projection of you.
What helps with aging is serious cognition - thinking and understanding. You have to truly grasp that everybody ages. Everybody dies. There is no turning back the clock. So the question in life becomes: What are you going to do while you're here?
My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.
donderdag 3 juli 2014
VOORUITZICHT
Echtpaar in de trein
voor Wobke
Met de allerliefste in een trein
kan aangenaam en leerzaam zijn.
De prachtig vormgegeven stoel
geeft allebei een blij gevoel.
Voor ‘t verre reisdoel kant en klaar
zit ik dus tegenover haar.
De trein maakt zijn vertrouwd geluid
en zij rijdt vóór-, ik achteruit.
We zien dezelfde dingen wel,
maar ik heel traag en zij heel snel.
Zij kijkt tegen de toekomst aan,
ik zie wat is voorbijgegaan.
Zo is de huwelijkse staat:
de vrouw ziet wat gebeuren gaat,
terwijl de man die naast haar leeft
slechts merkt wat zijn beslag al heeft.
Van nieuw begin naar nieuw begin
rijdt zij de wijde toekomst in,
en ik rij het verleden uit.
En beiden aan dezelfde ruit.
Willem Wilmink
A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.
It is paradoxical, yet true, to say, that the more we know, the more ignorant we become in the absolute sense, for it is only through enlightenment that we become conscious of our limitations. Precisely one of the most gratifying results of intellectual evolution is the continuous opening up of new and greater prospects.
Optimism doesn't wait on facts. It deals with prospects. Pessimism is a waste of time.