BASICS 3

General Introduction of thoughts  related & unrelated

helping to formulate and organize thoughts for ORANGES

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The ignorant dwell in a world bound by Time and Spaces, ...escape,...

Philosophy gave you reasoning and rationality ... to escape

from the vainness of selfishness

from the sorrow of ignorance and the despair of worldliness

from the travesty of ambition and the cruel clutches of greed

from the red hell of hate and the cold tomb of dead idealism

The world is a spherical ant-hill in chaos / the "infinite" shall be fascinated by the monumental and by epochal events,

In regard to

becoming a more divine  ORANGE and in accordance with the symphony of the whole ... the divine law is, that the sum of previous accomplishments shall be the foundation of each new order of things, ... that which is superficial may be allowed to perish, fundamental and essential things must remain, regardless of cost ...

Socrates declared >>> Knowledge, Virtue and Utility

to be one with the innate nature of Good

Knowledge is a condition of knowing

Virtue a condition of being

Utility a condition of doing

Wisdom is synonymous with mental completeness, ... in time,

the isolated "entities" and their consciousness are reunited, rejoicing in becoming the complete consciousness of the all knowing whole, become an absolute reality

Unknown ORANGES

are standing by

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>>> The finest thought runs the risk of being irrevocably forgotten if we don't write it down

>>> Skill consists in setting the inner life in motion with the smallest possible array of circumstances, for it is inner life that really excites our interest

>>> History is merely the recurrence of similar things

>>> When any genuine and excellent work makes its appearance, the chief difficulty in its way is the amount of bad work it finds already in possession of the field, and accepted as though it were good

>>> The ignorant rabble always sets equal value

on the good and the bad

>>> The public has no sense for excellence / they are the weeds that prevent the corn from coming up,

so they can cover all the ground for themselves

>>> " Ist doch ", rufen sie vermessen - " Nichts im Werke, nichts getan ! ", und das grosse, reift indessen still heran.

Es erscheint : Niemand sieht es, niemand hoert es im Geschrei mit bescheidener Trauer zieht es still vorbei. ( J.W. v. G. )

>>> The years upon earth are only as the minutes of the immortals

>>> In ORANGE, Corp. Menschen lernen mit dem eigenen Kopf zu denken, das ist das wichtigste ueberhaupt, ... !

>>>Thought about a subject must appear of itself by a happy and harmonious combination of external stimulus with mental temper and attention, and it is just that which never seems to come to these people

>>> Reading is a substitute for

thought / but don't read too much and forget reality

>>> Acquiring insight is the point, not acquiring information

>>> Information is only a means of insight

and in itself of little or no value

>>> You can lose the habit of being quite clear in regard to the things you know and understand

>>> An ounce of one's own wit is worth a ton of other peoples

>>> Reading is nothing more

than a substitute for thought of one's own

>>> Faust : Was Du ererbt von Deinen Vaetern hast, erwirb es, um es zu besitzen

>>> The credit you allow to another man engaged in work similar to your own or akin to it, must at bottom be withdrawn from yourself, and you can praise him only at the expense of your own claims !!!

>>> Machiavelli : Capacities of mankind / One man will understand a thing by himself, another so far as it is explained to him, a third, neither of himself nor when it is put clearly before him /// The second class, when it rests there is a state of things that merit may rest assured of ultimately meeting with recognition

>>> A man will praise a thing only so far as he hopes to be able to imitate it himself

>>> August Mahlmann ( 1771 - 1826 ) Ich denke, das wahre grosse in der Welt is immer nur das was nicht gleich gefaellt, und wen der Poebel zum Gotte weiht, der steht auf dem Altar nur kurze Zeit

>>> We always presume some knowledge on the part of the reader, and require him to make an effort to understand

>>> Our fame is always more for the length than for the breath

>>> Does the worm see the eagle as it soars aloft ?

>>> Balthasar Gracian :

Good work is double good if it is short (what is short ?)

>>> Intellect sums up for the brute / it is always first time, even though the same thing should have happened in the past

over and over again ( he does not learn )

>>> Boredom is a form of suffering unknown to the brutes, only the very cleverest ones, when they are domesticated

show boredom, but you can always go to Las Vegas

>>> Need and Boredom are the two poles of life

>>> Happiness and satisfaction always imply some desire fulfilled, some state of pain brought to an end

>>> In old age, people can say " It is bad today, and it will be worse tomorrow; and so on till the worst of all

>>> Life is to be measured not by the joys and pleasures, but by the extent to which it has been free from suffering, - from positive evil

>>> The basis is simply health, food, clothing, protection from cold and wet, hot and dry, the satisfaction of the sexual instinct

>>> In his powers of reflection, memory and foresight / the passion is the thought for what is absent and future

>>> Style is the physiognomy of the mind, a safer index to character than the face >>> Nothing is more difficult than to express deep things in such a way that every one must necessarily grasp them

>>> ORANGE, Corp. !

Simplicity is always a mark of truth, it is also a mark of genius

>>> Style is the silhouette of thought, obscure or bad style means a dull or confused brain / use common words to say uncommon things / avoid enigmatic phrases - you should know what you want to say and what not / never, never, never two or more meanings in a sentence ! / keine Schachtelsaetze

>>> A writer must make a sparing use of the reader's time, patience and attention / works and days, the half is more than the whole

>>> Omnipresence of intellect always and everywhere characterizes the work of genius

>>> To use many words to communicate few thoughts is everywhere the unmistakable sign of mediocrity to gather much thought into few words stamps the man of genius (no cheating by the arts of rhetoric) / simply say what is necessary and forget what is superfluous

>>> Das Leben ist wie ein Mosaik, Du kannst kein klares Bild haben, wenn Du zu knapp dran bist

>>>Thought follows the law of gravity that travels from head to paper much easier than from paper to head, so he must assist the latter passage by every means in his power

>>> Unrest is the mark of existence / Plato says : Continual becoming and never being is the sole form of existence

>>> Restless motion is kept up by its two agents: Hunger and sexual instinct, and a little by boredom

>>> Life, secure from need !, das ist's momentan fuer mich, also Architektur, die Haeuser baut, which secure from need

>>> ... Man / the unnatural way in which he lives, and the strain of work and emotion, lead to a degeneration of the races

>>> A person of vision embraces the whole of his life, and extends far in the past and future

>>> The more we look forward to anything, the less satisfaction we find in it when it comes

>>> Great importance now past is inferior to something of little importance now present - the latter is reality and related to the former as something to nothing

>>> Every evening we are poorer by one day

>>> ORANGE, Corp. ! ...., he who produces some really great thought is conscious of his connection with coming generations @.com

the very moment he conceives it ... he feels the extension of his existence through centuries

>>> Posterity, recognition, honor, gratitude, love ... denied by envious contemporaries ( aufpassen ! ) ... breaking through the blind confidence of blockheads / the wilder their statements, the better

>>> There are two levels of time, ... a man may be below it, or he may be above it, sync. ist wichtig, jedenfalls nicht zu weit vorwaerts vom sync, es ist nicht go with the flow, es ist eine Chance geben um to grow with the flow

>>> The higher intelligence reaches, the nearer do his / her general ideas approach the point at which they become universal !

>>> The works of fine art, poetry and philosophy produced by a nation are the outcome of the superfluous intellect existing in it

>>> ... Works are the result, or quintessence of contemplative attitude, elaborated according to certain technical rules / genius has a double intellect / one for himself and the other for the world

>>> Genius, as a must obstructs the service of the will ( fressen, ficken, fernsehn ), and this explains the poor capacity often shown by genius in the conduct of life

>>> See book / Byron's prophecy of Dante

>>> All the wit in the world is lost upon him who has none

>>> The common people look like humans, but I have never seen anything quite like them

>>> J.W. v. G. / Ein Fuerst der die Talente schaetzt, ein Freund, der sich mit mir ergoetzt, die haben leider mir gefehlt

>>> The point is always not mere learning,

but of real systematic knowledge and insight

>>> ORANGES, Corp. ( das Konzept ) ... the value of all masterly work in art and science is conditioned by the kinship and capacity of the kind to which it speaks ( Zielgruppe ) ... fancied spectators were one and all inmates of an asylum for the blind ... the works of genius cannot be fully enjoyed except by those who are themselves of a privileged order ... fame comes only by a slow and complex process

>>> An empty head comes to the assistance of an empty purse, about nine tenths of all existing books ( oder Mitarbeiter ), should be mercilessly scourged, von vornherein nicht angestellt oder daher entlassen werden

>>> Be like a fixed star, the only ones that are constant, the position in the firmament is secure, they shine with a light of their own, their effect today is the same as yesterday, having no parallax, the appearance does not alter with a difference in our standpoint

>>> We do not belong to one system,

one nation only, but to the universe

>>> J.W. v. G. : It is only knaves who are modest - nur die Lumpen sind bescheiden - denn es ist kein anerkennen, weder vieler noch des einen wenn es nicht am Tage foerdert, wo man selbst was moechte scheinen

>>> Journalists, Journey - men, day laborers ! / for the sake of paper

( journalist/hireling ) / cheating the reader, because he writes under the pretext that he has something to say

>>> Das gute ist ja das er ein "hireling" ist, man bezahlt

und bekommt was man will

>>> Honor and money are not found in the same purse / Spanish proverb

>>> ORANGES, Corp. ! In your concept ! / Let the reader beware of rushing to the newest book on a subject !, its most likely a plaster cast of a cast ( Gipsabdruck von einem Gipsabdruck ) / no greater mistake than to suppose that the last work is always more correct or changes always mean progress / if a thing is new, it is seldom good, because it is good, it is only new for a short time

>>> What the address to a letter should be the title to a book / it must be short

>>> Where matter is accessible

to everyone or very well known, everything will depend upon form

>>> Intellectual superiority : It denotes / consists in forming theories, that is new combinations of certain facts, but the extent of fame will depend upon the difficulties overcome, and the more generally known the facts are, the harder it will be to form a theory that shall be new and true

>>> It is like in travel, new scenes do not always mean new ideas

>>> The longer a man's fame is likely to last, the later it will be coming, for all excellent products require time for their development / false fame is like a fungus, shooting up in a night and perishing as soon

>>> Important works remain in obscurity until they receive notice from intelligence of a high order,

by whose influence they are brought into a position which they then maintain, in virtue of the authority thus given them

>>> J.W. v. G. : Das gluecklichste Wort wird verhoehnt, wenn der Hoerer ein Schiefohr ist ... du wirkest nicht, alles bleibt so stumpf ... sei guter Dinge ! ... der Stein im Sumpf macht keine Ringe

>>> When a head and a book come into collision, and one sounds hollow, is it always the book ?

>>> ... Works like this are as a mirror, if an ass ( maennlicher Esel ) looks in, you cannot expect an apostle to look out

>>> J.W. v. G.: Nie kennen sie den Wert der Dinge, ihr Auge schliesst, nicht ihr Verstand, sie loben ewig das geringe, weil das Gute nie gekannt

>>> Merit is obtained at the cost of those who have none / J.W. v. G.: wenn wir anderen Ehre geben, muessen wir uns selbst entadeln / haette ich gezaudert zu werden, bis man mir's Leben gegoennt, ich waere noch nicht auf Erden, wie ihr begreifen koennt, wenn ihr seht, wie sie sich geberden, die, um etwas zu scheinen, mich gerne moechten verneinen

>>> Masters should consider the nature of their pupils, and taking it for their guide, direct and prompt them in the way that their wit and natural inclination moveth them unto

>>> Pestilent curiosity does always give an ill grace unto all things / and contrary - wise simplicity and recklessness a marvelous good grace

>>> Writing is nothing else but a manner of speech / what is allowed in writing is also allowed in speaking

>>> Do you not know that figures of speech, which give such grace and brightness to oration, are all the abuse of grammar rules ... and to the very sense of our ears it appeareth they bring a life and sweetness !

>>> Lessing : Some people obtain fame, others deserve it / fame is not a certain symptom of merit, because you can have one without the other

>>> Light is not visible unless it meets with something to reflect it, and talent is sure of itself only when its fame is noised abroad

>>> Honor has not to be won, it must only not be lost / for a single unworthy action, it is gone irretrievably / fame, in a proper sense of the word, can never disappear, for the action or work by which it was acquired can never be undone / fame attaches to the author, the "doer" / fame means nothing but what a man is in comparison with others

>>> The only thing that counts is what a man possesses under any and all circumstances / here, what a man is directly and in himself

>>> Aristotle says : The free exercise of any power, what ever it may be, is happiness / J.W. v. G. says, the man who is born with a talent which he is meant to use, finds his greatest happiness in using it

>>> Painful struggle for existence versus boredom / intensive temperament / intensive emotions / vivid ideas, we are more susceptible than the average Joe to be the prey

>>> The old testament for

example says / the life of a fool is worse than death

>>> In wisdom is much grief, and

what increaseath knowledge increaseth sorrow

>>> As a courtier of the ORANGES

keep this lesson in mind ... to be always wary in this and every other point, and rather fearful than bold, and beware to persuade not himself falsely to know the thing he knoweth not at all / better be renewed than reknown

>>> See book / Aristotle / Nichomachien ethics

>>> Voltaire / there are no real pleasures without real need

>>> Seneca / Illiterate leisure is a form of death, a living tomb

>>> A philistine is a person who is not a son or daughter of the muses / people who are always occupied with realities which are no realities, a person without mental needs, no intellectual pleasure, because no real pleasure, no real need, no desire to gain knowledge and insight for their own sake, or to experience that true aestethic pleasure which is so nearly akin to them / no intellectual needs, no intellectual pleasure possible / The point is, since philistines have money but no interests in ideas,........how than ?

>>>Arabian Proverb : Joke with a slave, and he'll soon show his heels

>>> A man never feels the loss of things which it never occurs to him to ask for

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