Though, I found it worth mentioning and thus poated. I take it as my intellectual duty to say the truth, even if it contradicts my perception.
Unlike many others, i do not have any ego problem in crosscheking my perceptions and admit my shortcomings.
When you call yourself an Indian or a Muslim or a Christian or a European, or anything else, you are being violent. Do you see why it is violent? Because you are separating yourself from the rest of mankind. When you separate yourself by belief, by nationality, by tradition, it breeds violence. So a man who is seeking to understand violence does not belong to any country, to any religion, to any political party or partial system; he is concerned with the total understanding of mankind.
“Was Du ererbt von deinen Vätern hast, erwirb es, um es zu besitzen.” - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, “Faust” (I), S. 39.
Translation:
“What you have inherited from your fathers, acquire it in order to possess it.” - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, “Faust” (I), p. 39.
“ποταμοῖσι τοῖσιν αὐτοῖσιν ἐμβαίνουσιν, ἕτερα καὶ ἕτερα ὕδατα ἐπιρρεῖ.”
“Potamoisi toisin autoisin embainousin, hetera kai hetera hudata epirrei.”
Translation:
“Ever-newer waters flow on those who step into the same rivers.”
“τὰ ὄντα ἰέναι τε πάντα καὶ μένειν οὐδέν.”
“Ta onta ienai te panta kai menein ouden.”
Translation:
“All entities move and nothing remains still.”
“πάντα χωρεῖ καὶ οὐδὲν μένει” καὶ “δὶς ἐς τὸν αὐτὸν ποταμὸν οὐκ ἂν ἐμβαίης.”
“Panta chōrei kai ouden menei kai dis es ton auton potamon ouk an embaies.”
Translation:
“Everything changes and nothing remains still … and … you cannot step twice into the same stream.”
“Lachen ist die beste Medizin.”
Translation:
“Laughing is the best medicine.”
“Wo viel Licht ist, ist auch viel Schatten.” - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, “Götz von Berlichingen”, 1773.
Translation:
“Where much light is, there is also much shadow.” - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, “Götz von Berlichingen”, 1773.
“Das ist nicht das Gelbe vom Ei.”
Translation:
“That is not the yellow of the egg.” The meaning is: “It’s not exactly brilliant.”