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A Cancer is Ravaging Our Country
Cancer is perhaps the most dreaded disease that affects humanity. If it is diagnosed too late, it is fatal. And early diagnosis is not...
Chet A. Kisiel
9 paź 20204 minut(y) czytania
The View from Mount Zapffe
Peter Wessel Zapffe (1899-1990), a disciple of Schopenhauer, was a Norwegian philosopher, lawyer, author, mountaineer, and ardent...
Chet A. Kisiel
29 wrz 20194 minut(y) czytania
The Ship of Fools
Sebastian Brant was a medieval German humanist and artist who is best known for his book Das Narrenschiff (The Ship of Fools), the most...
Chet A. Kisiel
27 sie 20194 minut(y) czytania
Violence: Who, Where and Why?
The recent mass shootings in El Paso and Dayton shocked America and unleashed the Eumenides of the Mass Media to hound and punish the...
Chet A. Kisiel
20 sie 20193 minut(y) czytania
A Prophetic Novel?
Walter Bagehot (1826-1877), an English essayist, wrote that if you want to make a point, you must exaggerate it. His remark applies to a...
Chet A. Kisiel
23 lip 20194 minut(y) czytania
The UN Studies Happiness
In 2011 The United Nations published the first World Happiness Report. The Index devised by a team of scholars led by Jeffrey Sachs of...
Chet A. Kisiel
14 lip 20193 minut(y) czytania
Rilke
The supreme problem of every age is that of finding its consummate artistic expression. Every other problem is of secondary importance....
Chet A. Kisiel
30 cze 20194 minut(y) czytania
Adrienne von Speyr: A Swiss Mystic
If the gift of second sight were as common as it is rare, the undeniable factual proof of the strict necessity of all that happens would...
Chet A. Kisiel
22 cze 20194 minut(y) czytania
We Are All Cannibals
The title of this post comes from a book of that name by the anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss (1908-2009). He describes the discovery...
Chet A. Kisiel
30 maj 20194 minut(y) czytania
I Get No Respect
In his excellent book entitled The Wisdom of Life. Schopenhauer divides the subject into three parts: 1) What a man is; 2) what a man...
Chet A. Kisiel
8 maj 20194 minut(y) czytania
Is Life too Short?
Our life rushes by so quickly that all but a few people find that it is near an end just when they are getting ready to live. What...
Chet A. Kisiel
19 kwi 20193 minut(y) czytania
Never, Never, Never Give In
Winston Churchill uttered those words on the 29th of October 1941, during the darkest days of World War II, when England for more than...
Chet A. Kisiel
26 mar 20194 minut(y) czytania
Should You Have Children?
People nowadays for children or offspring use the word “kids,” which I find gross because it trivializes something most important to the...
Chet A. Kisiel
18 mar 20194 minut(y) czytania
Pearls before Swine
The purpose of this post is not to discuss the divinity of Jesus, his teaching, his miracles, or his crucifixion and resurrection....
Chet A. Kisiel
12 mar 20194 minut(y) czytania
Character Is Destiny (Heraclitus)
People have often wondered how the British established and ruled the largest empire in the history of the world. At one time, 30,000...
Chet A. Kisiel
2 mar 20195 minut(y) czytania
Ubi sunt?
Ubi sunt? Is a Latin expression that means, Where are they? Nowadays the phrase alludes to the famous line of Francois Villon...
Chet A. Kisiel
10 lut 20194 minut(y) czytania
The Hupomnemata
HUPOMNEMATAHypomnema (Greek. ὑπόμνημα, plural ὑπομνήματα, hypomnemata), also spelled hupomnema, is a Greek word with several translations...
Chet A. Kisiel
28 sty 20193 minut(y) czytania
Premeditatio Malorum: Plan for the Worst
On December 21 we took Harry, our beloved 10-year old cat to the Small Animal Clinic because he had stopped eating and had become...
Chet A. Kisiel
8 sty 20193 minut(y) czytania
Cultivate Your Own Garden
,Born on Jauuary 3rd 106 B.C., Marcus Tullius Cicero was a great Roman lawyer, rhetor and statesman, the father of constitutionalism,...
Chet A. Kisiel
3 sty 20193 minut(y) czytania
A New Year's Visit to Vienna
For better or worse, a New Year has commenced. Persons under the age of forty are still living on their interest, while persons over that...
Chet A. Kisiel
1 sty 20194 minut(y) czytania
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