What can philosophy do about uncertainty? This is what two journalists of the ‹NZZ› asked Peter Sloterdijk a few years...
In 1961, the astrophysicist Francis Drake came up with the equation later named after him, with which one should be...
It is in the nature of things that inspiration, the middle of the three stages of knowledge—the transitions between which are considered to be fluid in a certain way—is the most difficult to grasp independently. It joins the imagination by transforming the images from the first stage that are still...
Peace is when I can let go of this: the craving for ego, the longing for the mother’s breast. Peace...
The Bavarian singer-songwriter Werner Schmidbauer calls himself a “collector of moments” [Momentensammler] in his song of the same name. This...
The fairy tale in this issue speaks of three brothers: “Faith,” “Love,” and “Hope.” Where do these names come from? The search for clues leads to Paul’s “Song of Songs.” He was the first to characterize these three Christian virtues. From Paul, the path leads back to Plato. The three...
It’s the end of October. A huge emerald-green dragonfly is skimming across the garden pond again, having warmed itself back...
He was drawn to the sea. At age 20, he joined the French Navy and began navigating on the surface...
Do you know Beethoven’s ‹Immortal Beloved›? Beethoven dedicated all his music from a certain point in time to an ‹immortal lover›. To this day people are divided as to who she may have been, and the way in which people are pondering about it says everything about this power of...
A walk in the city. A coffee in hand. Looking around slowly. Almost invisible, with a magic hood, barely two...
Something similar (to initiation) also occurs in a near-death experience. The parallel lies in the fact that a person who...
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