Its off to austria today, on the longest road trip of the year. Male voice, recorded by native german speaker from berlin, germany. Reading and talking about philosophy is after accomplishing my masters studies my almost habitual daily activity. Wenn du geschwiegen hattest, warest du ein philosoph. In most cases, people start studying philosophy out of passion.
Join facebook to connect with elisabeth bertoncelj and others you may know. Philosophusis a latin noun meaning, philosopher, from the greek philosophos,a lover of wisdom. Your online dictionary for englishgerman translations. The great work, for the philosophus, is defined as, to obtain control of the attractions and repulsions of my own being. Bataille and the suspension of being lingua romana. To determ ine the degree of seriousness and attach penalties proportionate to it, consideratio n is given to dif ferent factor s which m ay intervene in very different sorts of offences, like the degree of harm to the victim. It translates literally as, if you had been silent, you would have remained a philosopher. Lewis 1891 an elementary latin dictionary, new york.
The vettel business is now fading and we will have to see whether vettel has learned his lesson or whether he will. The practice fell out of fashion and into obscurity with the decline in latin literacy. So may i suggest you go and read the book i suggested in the first place. Next thing you are going to tell me that japan surprized the yanks with the pearlharbour attack. I always have the above latin maxim in mind when writing editorials and certainly have it i mind when reading opinion pieces. Wenn du geschwiegen hattest, warest du ein philosoph geblieben. The german indologist heinrich zimmer, referring to the sacred batailles underlying theme, once said something the french philosopher would have thoroughly agreed with and which somehow.
This page lists english translations of notable latin phrases, such as veni vidi vici and et cetera. There is a section of the second book, prose seven, which contains the phrase, iam. The phrase illustrates a common use of the subjunctive verb mood. Red barons blog written to entertain my american friends in freiburgs sister city madison, wi, with odd stories from freiburg, germany, and tales about my travels. Most of the people are leaving their books at a desk and dont come back ever, or they come back hours later. This would at least honor bataille in a way congruent with his philosophy he embraced the medieval distich.
To see what your friends thought of this quote, please sign up. This quote is often attributed to the latin philosopher boethius of the late fifth and early sixth centuries. O sleep, it is a gentle thing, beloved from pole to pole. Offering forums, vocabulary trainer and language courses. Im heading for germany and will spent the evening eating schnitzel no doubt and then motor on tomorrow to austria. In professor corinna treitels opinion, publication of this book became one of the key events in history of the german occult movement. Summary by hokuspokus and wikipedia book coordinators. If you had kept your silence, you would have stayed a philosopher. Facebook gives people the power to share and makes the world more open and connected. Hattest du geschwiegen, warest du ein philosoph geblieben. The supporting phrases were simply too much and although seemingly politically correct they backfired.
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