The Popperian Podcast #29 – Rafe Champion – ‘Jacques Barzun’
Collections of English Translations of the Odes (Updated):205 translations of Carpe Diem (Odes I.11) 232 translations of Integer Vitae (Odes I.22) 170 translations of Vitas Hinnuleo (Odes I.23) 158 translations of Aequam Memento (Odes II.3) 162 translations of Rectius Vives (Odes II.10) 169 translations … waisberg.micro.blog
New Collection of Translations:
New Collection of Translations:
Brightened my morning.
Oren Cahanovitc: The Ethnic Cleansing of Jews within Muslim Countries
Burckhardt on the uncertainty of events
One great advantage of studying cultural history is the certainty if its more important facts, compared with those of history in the ordinary sense of narrated events: these are frequently uncertain, controversial, colored, or, given the Greek talent for lying, entirely the invention of imagination or self-interest. Cultural history by contrast possesses a primary degree of certainty, as it consists for the most part of material conveyed in an unintentional, disinterested or even involuntary way by sources and monuments; they betray their secrets unconsciously and even, paradoxically, through fictitious elaborations, quite apart from the material details they may set out to record and glorify, and are thus doubly instructive for the cultural historian. —Jacob Burckhardt, *The Greeks and Greek Civilization, ed. Oswyn Murray, trans. Sheila Stern (1998), p. 5
Burckhardt: a personal possession of the past – in whatever shape or form
I have done everything I possibly could to lead them on to acquire personal possession of the past – in whatever shap or form. I wanted then to be capable of picking the fruits for themselves… I wanted to make every member of the audience feel and know that everyone may and must appropriate those aspects of the past that appeal to him personally, and that there can be happiness in so doing. —Burckhardt to Nietzsche
Martin Mosebach and Navid Kermani: “Of course religion is first and foremost a duty."
In religion, doubt is overrated.
Charles Scribner III, Scribners: Five Generations in Publishing
Going for a walk before Mass.
It seems that Hamas has more support in the West than in the Middle East.
Jorge H. Aigla, New definitions of worn-out words for the new age
Oren Cahanovitc: The Palestinian Refugee Problem Explained
Filipe Rafaeli, Chronicles of an Unvaccinated Leftist
To continue an injustice is to commit injustice. —Mommsen, quoted by Joseph Epstein, “Hail, Mommsen”