Enligt vetenskap och statistik
är dödligheten störst under det
första levnadsåret.
Men för en enkel lekperson
är den större
under det sista.
Poul Thorsen, Averto (översättning
Christer Kiselman).
Jag har en känsla av att vi har varit upptagna hela tiden,
samtidigt är det svårt att se att vi har gjort någonting. Det är så
underligt.
Kung Carl XVI Gustaf i Dagens Nyheter
2005-01-10, sidan 6.
I vår tid är trovärdiga lögner viktigare än otroliga
sanningar.
Christer Kiselman, brev 2003-08-13 till bja-listo
(egen översättning).
I lögn och ro.
Rubrik i Dagens Nyheter.
En hjälm som bärs av ingen har tagit makten.
Tomas
Tranströmer (1931-04-15 — 2015-03-26), "Osäkerhets rike"
i Sorgegondolen (1996).
En la nuna mondo pli gravas kredindaj mensogoj ol nekredeblaj
veroj.
Christer Kiselman, letero 2003-08-13 al bja-listo.
The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable
uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.
Ursula K. LeGuin,
The Left Hand of Darkness, Panther, 1977, page 55.
All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always
will exist.
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (1922 November 11 — 2007 April 11),
Slaughterhouse-Five or the Children's Crusade. A Duty-dance with
Death. Panther, 1978, page 25.
A number of years ago, the Dalai Lama visited the United States.
As part of his travels, he visited the headquarters in Chicago of one
of the great American news magazines. He was given the Cook's tour,
and then there was a grand formal lunch at which the various
executives of the enterprise pontificated ad nauseam. The Dalai
Lama—an elfin man—set swathed in his saffron robe, an
inscrutable smile on his face, saying nothing. After about an hour,
the CEO of the publishing company turned to the Dalai Lama and said,
"Do you have any questions about our magazine, the nation's premiere
news magazine? Go ahead, ask us anything at all." The Dalai Lama
bowed his head for a moment, apparently deep in thought. Then he
looked up and said, "Why do you publish it?"
Steven Krantz,
Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society 40 (2003), page 144.
'You don't see yet, Genry, why we perfected and practice
Foretelling?'
'No—'
'To exhibit the perfect
uselessness of knowing the answer to the wrong question.'
Ursula
K. LeGuin, The Left Hand of Darkness, Panther, 1977, page 54.
Light is the left hand of darkness
and darkness the right
hand of light.
Two are one, life and death, lying
together
like lovers in kemmer,
like hands joined together,
like the
end and the way.
Ursula K. LeGuin, The Left Hand of
Darkness, Panther, 1977, page 159.
The identity of the words 'work' and 'play' in Pravic had of
course, a strong ethical significance.
Ursula K. LeGuin, The Dispossessed, Panther, 1976, page 225.
"Ah," he said swallowing, "as they say: to a man whose only tool
is a hammer, everything looks like a nail!"
Alex Kasman,
"Unreasonable Effectiveness." In: Reality Conditions: Short
Mathematical Fiction. Washington, DC: The Mathematical
Association of America, 2005, page 4.
"My idea," she continued, "was that another good explanation for
why 'pure mathematical' research becomes useful some time after its
discovery is that the universe itself changes to fit our mathematical
discoveries."
Alex Kasman, "Unreasonable Effectiveness." In:
Reality Conditions: Short Mathematical Fiction. Washington,
DC: The Mathematical Association of America, 2005, page 4.
We must believe in the free will. We have no other choice.
Isaac Bashevis Singer in a TV program.
What matters most are ideas.
Christer Kiselman, Brazil, 1975.
Leadership is the ability to lead by being an example for others
to follow.
Anonymous writing on a whiteboard in Addis Ababa,
October, 2007.
A helmet worn by no one has taken power.
Tomas Tranströmer
(1931 April 15 — 2015 March 26), "National Insecurity" in The
Sorrow Gondola (1996).
Et i'espere que nos neueux me sçauront gré, non seulement des
choses que iay icy expliquées; mais aussy de celles que iay omises
volontairement, affin de leur laisser le plaisir de les inuenter.
René Descartes, La Géométrie, 1637, page 413.
Christian Morgenstern, Palmström, "Die Wissenschaft". Insel-Verlag, 1952, S. 22.
Korf erfindet eine Art von Witzen,
die erst viele Stunden
später wirken.
Jeder hört sie an mit langer Weile.
Doch als hätt ein Zunder still geglommen,
wird man nachts im
Bette plötlich munter,
selig lächelnd wie ein satter
Säugling.
Christian Morgenstern, Palmström, "Korf erfindet eine Art von Witzen". Insel-Verlag, 1952, S. 53.
Es kommen zu Palmström heute
die wirklich praktischen Leute,
die wirklich auf allen zehn Zehen
im wirklichen Leben
stehen.
Christian Morgenstern, Palmström, "Die wirklich praktischen Leute". Insel-Verlag, 1952, S. 65.
Ein Helm, den Niemand trägt, hat die Macht übernommen.
Tomas
Tranströmer (1931-04-15 &madash; 2015-03-26), "Das Reich der
Unsicherheit" in Sorgegondolen (1996).
Christer Kiselman. Senast ändrad 2015-03-26.