Sunday, December 21, 2008

He also served as scribe

Thoth
He is said to direct the motions of the heavenly bodies. Without his words, the Egyptians believed, the gods would not exist.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"Thoth":
from a Japanese dictionary: と (prt,conj) (1) if; when; (2) and; (3) with; (4) particle used for quoting (with speech, thoughts, etc.); (5) (abbr) promoted pawn (shogi);

He also served as scribe

Thoth
He is said to direct the motions of the heavenly bodies. Without his words, the Egyptians believed, the gods would not exist.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"Thoth":
from a Japanese dictionary: と (prt,conj) (1) if; when; (2) and; (3) with; (4) particle used for quoting (with speech, thoughts, etc.); (5) (abbr) promoted pawn (shogi);

Thursday, December 18, 2008

single exception



Time is nothing else than the form of the internal sense, that is, of the intuitions of self and of our internal state. For time cannot be any determination of outward phenomena. It has to do neither with shape nor position; on the contrary, it determines the relation of representations in our internal state. And precisely because this internal intuition presents to us no shape or form, we endeavour to supply this want by analogies, and represent the course of time by a line progressing to infinity, the content of which constitutes a series which is only of one dimension ...

The Critique of Pure Reason
Immanuel Kant

single exception



Time is nothing else than the form of the internal sense, that is, of the intuitions of self and of our internal state. For time cannot be any determination of outward phenomena. It has to do neither with shape nor position; on the contrary, it determines the relation of representations in our internal state. And precisely because this internal intuition presents to us no shape or form, we endeavour to supply this want by analogies, and represent the course of time by a line progressing to infinity, the content of which constitutes a series which is only of one dimension ...

The Critique of Pure Reason
Immanuel Kant

Wednesday, December 17, 2008

offended consciousness


From the psychological point of view the offended consciousness
will display a great variety of nuances within the more active and the more passive forms.

from Philosophical Fragments
by Sören Kierkegaard

offended consciousness


From the psychological point of view the offended consciousness
will display a great variety of nuances within the more active and the more passive forms.

from Philosophical Fragments
by Sören Kierkegaard