Dickens, C. (1857) LITTLE DORRIT. London: PENGUIN BOOKS
" 'Listen then. I am a woman, I. I know nothing of philosophical philanthropy. But I know what I have seen, and what I have looked in the face, in this world here, where I find myself. And I tell you this, my friend, that there are people (men and women both, unfortunately) who have no good in them - none. That there are people whom it is necessary to detest without compromise. That there are people who must be dealt with as enemies of the human race." (Dickens, 1857, p.171).
Mascarò, J (1973) BUDDHAS'S TEACHINGS. London: Penguin Classics
" 7
Infinite Freedom
91 Those who have high thoughts are ever striving: they are not happy to remain in the same place. Like swans that leave their lake and rise into the air, they leave their home for a higher home." (Mascarò, 1973, p.19)
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Joyce, J. (2000) Ulysses. London: Penguin Classics.
"I ought to profess Greek, the language of the mind." (Joyce, 2000, p. 169)
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Shelley, M (1818) Frankenstein [online] [accessed 4th June 2014] Accessed via http://www.literature.org/authors/shelley-mary/frankenstein/chapter-10.html
Chapter 10
" If our impulses were confined to hunger, thirst, and desire, we might be nearly free; but now we are moved by every wind that blows, and a chance word or scene that that word may convey to us. "We rest; a dream has power to poison sleep. We rise; one wandering thought pollutes the day. We feel, conceive, or reason; laugh or weep, Embrace fond woe, or cast our cares away; It is the same: for, be it joy or sorrow, The path of its departure still is free. Man's yesterday may ne'er be like his morrow. Nought may endure but mutability!" ".
(Shelley, p.1, s.d.)
Shelley, M (1818) Frankenstein-Preface [online] [accessed 15th May 2014] Accessed via http://www.literature.org/authors/shelley-mary/frankenstein/
LETTER I
"What may not be expected in a country of eternal light? I may there discover the wondrous power which attracts the needle; and may regulate a thousand celestial observations, that require only this voyage to render their seeming eccentricities consistent for ever. I shall satiate my ardent curiosity with the sight of a part of the world never before visited, and may tread a land never before imprinted by the foot of man. [...] for nothing contributes so much to tranquillise the mind as a steady purpose--a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye." (Shelley, p.1, s.d.)
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Saint-Exupéry, A. (1943) The Little Prince [online] [accessed 1st April 2014] Accessed via http://srogers.com/books/little_prince/ch21.asp
Chapter 21: the little prince befriends the fox.
" "Go and look again at the roses. You will understand now that yours is unique in all the world. Then come back to say goodbye to me, and I will make you a present of a secret."
The little prince went away, to look again at the roses.
"You are not at all like my rose," he said. "As yet you are nothing. No one has tamed you, and you have tamed no one. You are like my fox when I first knew him. He was only a fox like a hundred thousand other foxes. But I have made him my friend, and now he is unique in all the world."
And the roses were very much embarrassed.
"You are beautiful, but you are empty," he went on. "One could not die for you. To be sure, an ordinary passerby would think that my rose looked just like you-- the rose that belongs to me. But in herself alone she is more important than all the hundreds of you other roses: because it is she that I have watered; because it is she that I have put under the glass globe; because it is she that I have sheltered behind the screen; because it is for her that I have killed the caterpillars (except the two or three that we saved to become butterflies); because it is she that I have listened to, when she grumbled, or boasted, or ever sometimes when she said nothing. Because she is my rose.
And he went back to meet the fox.
"Goodbye," he said. " (Saint-Exupéry, p.1, 2014)
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Αριστοφάνης- Aristophanes' Speech from Plato's Symposium - Ποιήσαι έν εκ δυοίν -"Hen Ek Duoin": One Out of Two as translated by Connell O'Donovan (1996) [online][accessed 6th Feb 2014]. Accessed via http://www.connellodonovan.com/hen.html
"First, you all will learn about the nature of humanity and its experiences. For long ago its nature was not as it is now - one became the other. For at first there were three species [or sexes] of humans, not two, just as now: male and female, as well as another third one [androgyne], sharing things in common with both of these (of which its name remains although it has disappeared). For the androgyne back then was distinct in shape and name, out of having in common both male and female, but now its name survives only in reproach.
Second, each human was in the shape of a rounded whole, its back and sides making a circle having four hands, and legs the same number as hands, and two faces upon a circular neck (identical in all ways), and a head for the faces (each one facing the opposite way), and four ears, and two genitals, and everything else likewise. They stood upright (just as now) whichever of the two ways they walked. But when they started to run quickly, the eight limbs would revolve in a circular handcart, just like tumblers, fixing the limbs to complete the circle and return upright.(2) I have said there are three species and such things because the male was originally a descendant of the Sun, and the female of the Earth, and the species sharing both is of the Moon, because the Moon shares both [the Sun and the Earth]. Both their [planetary] roundness and their revolving were passed on to their offspring [making them do circular handcarts when moving rapidly]. [...]" (O'Donovan, 1996, p.1)
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01.01.2014
Woods, T. (1999) BEGINNING POSTMODERNISM. Manchester: Manchester University Press.
Postmodern poetry: an example
"Two further characteristics may be noted: the condensation and displacement of linguistics elements into brief fragmentary phrases, which has the effect of displacing any unified narrative, creating a constantly changing semantic environment; and the syntactical work in what has been called the 'new sentence' , which refers to the deformations of normal sentences so as to alternate ways in combining them within larger structures. Consequently, the poem does not offer up pre-existent meanings, but the passage demands that one attend to the material basis of the meaning production within its own context." (Woods, 1999, p.79)
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26.09.2013, Florina, GR
Joyce, J. (2000) Ulysses. London: Penguin Classics.
" Epi oinopa ponton. Ah, Dedalus, the Greeks. I must teach you. You must read them in original. Thalatta! Thalatta! " (Joyce, 2000, p. 3)
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22.09.2013, Florina, GR
Woods, T. (1999) BEGINNING POSTMODERNISM. Manchester: Manchester University Press.
" Anti-Oedipus formed the first volume of Capitalism and Schizophrenia, in which they developed their notion of 'schizoanalysis'. This approach articulated a new mode of postmodern self organised around concepts of plural and multiple identities and decentred or displaced consciousnesses. They start from the basis that desire is itself revolutionary and radically subversive. Hence, society has needed to repress and control desire, to 'territorialise' it within demarcated areas and delimited structures: 'To code desire is the business of the socius' (Anti-Oedipus, p. 139). In this view, the 'socius' or communal structure within which we live is a repressive regime: it organises social harmony not through enabling collective action to result from rational debate, but by preventing individual and collective desires from being allowed their freedom." (Woods, 1999, p. 31).
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23.08.2013, Florina, GR
Shevchenko, T. (1838) KATERINA. [online][accessed 23rd August 2013] Accessed via http://www.utoronto.ca/elul/English/248/Shevchenko-Kateryna-Skrypnyk-trans.pdf
"Katerina gazes, waiting,
Half a year goes plodding,
When the pain around her heart,
Stabs her youthful body.
Very ill lies Katerina,
Barely, barely breathing..."
(Shevchenko, 1838, p.5)
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21.08.2013, Φλώρινα, Ελλάδα.
Κάλφας, Β. και Ζωγραφίδης, Γ. (2013) ΑΡΧΑΙΟΙ ΕΛΛΗΝΕΣ ΦΙΛΟΣΟΦΟΙ. Αθήνα: Δημοσιογραφικός Οργανισμός Λαμπράκη Α.Ε.
"Η αρχική κατάσταση της Γης ήταν υγρή. Ο Ήλιος με την θερμότητα του προκαλεί τη βαθμιαία αποξήρανση της επιφάνειας της Γης, με τον περιορισμό του υγρού στοιχείου στη θάλασσα, ενώ δημιουργεί και ευνοϊκές συνθήκες για την γέννηση της ζωής. Η ζωή κατά τον Αναξίμανδρο, ξεκίνησε από τη θάλασσα. "Τα πρώτα ζώα γεννήθηκαν στο υγρό στοιχείο και είχαν αρχικά αγκαθωτό κέλυφος; καθώς μεγάλωναν, έβγαινάν στην ξηρά, έσπαζε το κέλυφός τους και ζούσαν με έναν διαφορετικό τρόπο" (Αέτιος 5.19.4). Ο άνθρωπος προήλθε από άλλο ζωϊκό είδος, μάλλον από τα ψάρια , αφού, "καθώς χρειάζεται μακροχρόνια μητρική φροντίδα, θα ήταν αδύνατο να επιβιώσει αν αυτή [η ανθρώπινη] ήταν η αρχική του μορφή" (Ψευδοπλούταρχος, Στρωματείς 2). Έτσι λοιπόν ενηλικιώθηκε μέσα σε ιχθυόμορφα πλάσματα και βγήκε από αυτά όταν πια ήταν ικανός να συντηρήσει τον ευατό του." (Κάλφας και Ζωγραφίδης, 2013, σελ.35).
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25.07.2013, Florina, GR
Shakespeare, W (2007) The Complete Illustrated works of William Shakespeare. THE TEMPEST. India:Octopus Publishing Group Ltd.
" "Hell is empty, And all the devils are here." " (Shakespeare, 2007, p.12)
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22.07.2013, Φλώρινα, Ελλάδα.
Πλάτων (2006) Πολιτεία, Τόμος Β'- Μετάφραση Θεόδωρος Γ.Μαυρόπουλος. Θεσσαλονίκη: ΖΗΤΡΟΣ
" Είπα: Λοιπόν; Υπάρχει γυναίκα που αγαπά τη γνώση και γυναίκα που μισεί τη γνώση και γυναίκα που είναι ψυχωμένη και γυνάικα άψυχη;
"Και αυτά τα είδη υπάρχουν" είπε.
[...]
Είπα: Επομένως η φυσική καταλληλότητα της γυναίκας και του άνδρα είναι ίδια, αλλά στη μια περίπτωση είναι πιο αδύναμη, στην άλλη πιο δυνατή.
"Έτσι φαίνεται" είπε." (Πλάτων, 2006, σελ.811)
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17.12.2012, Florina, GR
TBS (2007) Holy Bible -TIMOTHY. England: Cambridge University Press
"11 Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection. 12 But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence" (Timothy, 2007, p.1103)
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04.12.2012
Επίκτητος (1997) ΔΙΑΤΡΙΒΗ Γ' . Θεσσαλονίκη: Ζήτρος
" Και ο άνθρωπος, κοντά στο ότι από τη φύση είναι μεγαλόψυχος και περιφρονεί όλα όσα δεν έχουν να κάνουν με τη βούλησή του, απέκτησε και την ικανότητα να μη ριζώνει ούτε να φυτρώνει στη γη, αλλά κάθε φορά να πηγαίνει σε άλλους τόπους, πότε για κάποιες επείγουσες ανάγκες, πότε και μόνο για να δεί κάτι." (Επίκτητος, 1997, σελ. 213)
" Ο Επίκτητος το λέγει totidem verbis: "Μη ζητείς , αυτό που συμβαίνει, να συμβαίνει όπως το θέλεις αλλά να θέλεις όλα τα πράγματα να συμβαίνουν όπως συμβαίνουν" ". (Επίκτητος, 1997, σελ. 32)
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25.11.2012
Shakespeare, W (2007) The Complete Illustrated works of William Shakespeare. Much Ado About Nothing. India:Octopus Publishing Group Ltd.
" Friendship is constant in all other things,
Save in the office and affairs of love:
Therefore, all hearts in love use their own tongues;
Let every eye negotiate for itself,
And trust no agent; for beauty is a witch,
Against whose charms faith melteth into blood.
This is an accident of hourly proof,
Which I mistrusted not." (Shakespeare, 2007, p.124)
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11.11.2012, Melbourne, VIC
Conrad, J (2010) Heart of Darkness & Tales of Unrest. Australia: Arcturus Publishing Limited.
" "Don't you understand I loved him - I loved him - I loved him! "
'I pulled myself together and spoke slowly.
" 'The last word he pronounced was - your name." [...] " (Conrad, 2010, p.92)
24.10.2012, Melbourne, VIC
Conrad, J (2010) Heart of Darkness & Tales of Unrest. Australia: Arcturus Publishing Limited.
"At the time there were many blank spaces on the earth, and when I saw one that looked particularly inviting on a map (but they all look that) I would put my finger on it and say, "When I grow up I will go there
." The North Pole was one of these places, I remember. [...]Other places were scattered about the two hemispheres. I have been in some of them , and...well, we won't talk about that." (Conrad, 2010, p.16)
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06.08.2012, Florina, GR
Brontë, E. (2008) Wuthering Heights. Essex: Pearson Education Limited
"Mr.Heathcliff and I are a suitable pair to share this loneliness". (Brontë, 2008, p.1)
"I had chosen this place, I remembered, for its loneliness. But how little we human beings know our own minds! Did I really want to live here?" (Brontë, 2008, p.13)
" ' [...] Nelly, I am Heathcliff! He's always in my mind, as part of me' " (Brontë, 2008, p.34)
"[...] You loved me-then what right had you to leave me? Because misery, and degradation, and death could not have parted us, you did it! I have not broken your heart - you have broken it, and in breaking it, you have broken mine." (Brontë, 2008, p.61)
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24.06.2012, Φλώρινα.
Πλάτων (2006) ΠΟΛΙΤΕΙΑ. Μετάφραση Θεόδωρος Γ. Μαυρόπουλος. Θεσσαλονίκη: Ζήτρος
"Πάθος λοιπόν είναι άλογη κίνηση της ψυχής για κακό ή για καλό." (Πλάτων, 2006, σελ.219)
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18.06.2012, Florina
Márquez, G,G.(2011) Del amor y otros demonios. Barcelona:Debols!llo
"Cuanto más transparente es la escritura más se ve la poesía", dijo ". ( Márquez, 2011, p.41).
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19.05.2012, Milano
Pisani, G.(2010) (Πλούταρχος) Plutarco. (Περὶ τοῦ ἀκούειν)-L'arte di ascoltare. Milano: Arnoldo Mondadori.
"Non si devono trattare gli esseri vιventi come scarpe o suppellettili, che si buttano via quando sono rotte o logorate dall' uso; dobbiamo invece abituarci a essere dolci e clementi con gli altri, se non altro per esercitarci all' amore verso il prossimo." (Plutarco in Pisani, 2010, p. XI)
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14.05.2012, Milan
Porter,I.J.(2006) Classical pasts: the classical traditions of Greece and Rome Classical pasts. Princeton: University Press
"Thus Isocrates can claim that it is above all in the domain of language that Athens has become the school for the rest of the world:
And so far has our city distanced the rest of mankind in thought and in speech that her pupils have become the teachers of the rest of the world; and she has brought it about that the name ‘Hellenes’ suggests no longer a race but an intelligence, and thin the title ‘Hellenes’ is applied rather to those who share our culture than to those who share a common blood." (Isocrates in Porter, 2006, pp383-384)
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25.02.2012, Milan
Stoker, B. (2011) Dracula. London: HarperCollins
" I am glad to say that, though I was crying, I was able to look into Mr.Morris's brave eyes, and told him out straight:- " 'Yes, there is some one I love, though he has not told me yet that he even loves me.' I was right to speak to him so frankly, for quite a light came into his face, and he put out both his hands and took mine- I think I put them into his-and said in a hearty way: -
"That's my brave girl. It's better worth being late for a chance of winning you than being in time for any other girl in the world. [...]". (Stoker, 2011, p.71)
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22.01.2012 Milan
Leroux, G.(2011) The Phantom of the Opera. London: HarperCollins
"No one ever sees the Angel;but he is heard by those who are meant to hear him. He often comes when they least expect him, when they are sad and disheartened. Then their ears suddenly perceive celestial harmonies, a divine voice, which they remember all their lives. Persons who are visited by the Angel quiver with thrill unknown to the rest of mankind." (Leroux, 2011, p.55)
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18.12.2011 Milano
Wilde, O. (2010) The Picture of Dorian Gray. London: HarperCollins
"People say sometimes that Beauty is only superficial. That may be so. But at least is not as superficial as Thought is. To me Beauty is the wonder of wonders. It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible..." (Wilde, 2010, p.21)
" 'I believe that if one man were to live out his life fully and completely, were to give form to every feeling, expression to every thought, reality to every dream - I believe that the world would gain such fresh impulse of joy that we would forget all the maladies of medievalism, and return to the Hellenic ideal- to something finer, richer, than the
Hellenic ideal, it may be. But the bravest man amongst us is afraid of himself. [...]The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself, with desire for what its monstruous laws have made monstruous and unlawful." (Wilde, 2010, p.17)
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12.12.2011 Milano
Dodds, E.R. (2010) I Greci e l'irrazionale. Italia: BUR Alta fedeltà
"Tutti noi siamo Greci: le nostre leggi, la nostra letteratura, arti, tutto ha le proprie radici in Grecia. Non fosse per la Grecia [...] noi saremmo ancora selvaggi e idolatri: o quel che è peggio, saremmo potuti cadere in quel miserabile e stagnante stato delle istituzioni in cui versano Cina e Giappone. La forma umana e la mente umana giunsero alla perfezione in Grecia." (Percy Bysshe Shelley in Dodds 2010, p.II).
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Milan, 06.10.2011
Leadershipnow (2011) Steve Jobs (1955-2011) [online][ accessed 6th Oct. 2011] Accessed via http://www.leadershipnow.com
/leadingblog/2011/10/steve_jobs_
19552011.html)
"Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. [...]Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition." (Jobs in Leadershipnow, 2011, p.1)
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01.07.2011
Goleman, D. (1996) Emotional Intellegence. Why it can matter more than IQ. London: Bloomsbury
"Empathy builds on self-awareness; the more open we are to our own emotions, the more skilled we will be in reading feelings. [...]This failure to register another's feelings is a major deficit in emotional intelligence, and a tragic failing in what it means to be human." (Goleman, 1996, p.96)
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21.05.2011
Brontë C. (1847) Jane Eyre. London:Wordsworth (1999)
"' [...]I have something in my brain and heart, in my blood and nerves, that assimilates me mentally to him...Blasphemy against nature! Every good, true, vigorous feeling I have gathers impulsively round him. I know I must conceal my sentiments: I must smother hope; I must remember that he cannot care much for me. For when I say that I am of his kind, I do not mean that I have his force to influence, and his spell to attract; I mean only that I have certain tastes and feelings in common with him. I must, then, repeat continually that we are for ever sundered: -and yet, while I breathe and think, I must love him'. " (Brontë, 1847, p.153)
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02.05.2011
Talbot,T. (1959) Ortega Y Gasset- On Love:Aspects of a single theme. New York:Greenwich
«Desiring something is, without doubt, a move toward
possession of that something ("possession" meaning that in some way or other the object should enter our orbit and become part of us). For this reason, desire automatically dies when it is fulfilled; it ends with satisfaction. Love, on the other hand, is eternally unsatisfied. Desire has a passive character; when I desire something, what I actually desire is that the object come to me. Being the center of gravity, I await things to fall down before me. Love, as we shall see, is the exact reverse of desire, for love is all activity. Instead of the object coming to me, it is I who go to the object and become part of it. In the act of love, the person goes out of himself. Love is perhaps the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward something else. It does not gravitate toward me, but I toward it.» (Ortega Y Gasset in Talbot,1959, p.12).¨
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26.04.2011
Goleman, D. (1996) Emotional Intellegence. Why it can matter more than IQ. London: Bloomsbury
" A sense of self-mastery, of being able to withstand the emotional storms that the buffeting of Fortune brings rather than being "passion's slave," has been praised as a virtue since the time of Plato. The ancient Greek word for it was sophrosyne, "care and intelligence in conducting one's life; a tempered balance and wisdom," as Page DuBois, a Greek scholar, translates it." (Goleman, 1996, p. 56)
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06.04.2011
Horace: 'Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero'
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03.04.2011
Coelho. P (2004) Eleven Minutes. London: HarperCollins
" 'In all the languages of the world there is the same proverb: "What the eyes don't see, the heart doesn't grieve over." Well, I say that there isn't an ounce of truth in it. The further off they are, the closer to the heart are all those feelings that we try to repress and forget. [...]If we're far from the person we love, everyone we pass in the street reminds us of them.' " (Coelho, 2004, p.247)
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30.03.2011
Kurtz, I (1986) Malespeak;Men-Psychology;Sex-differences. London: Cape
"The male's need to love is just as strong as the female's, a man friend said. Only his fear is much greater. Fear of what? I asked. Of being mistaken, he said. In her, or by her? Both, my friend said." (Kurtz, 1986, p.21)
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26.03.2011
Goleman, D. (1996) Emotional Intellegence. Why it can matter more than IQ. London: Bloomsbury
"Anyone can become angry-that is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way-that is not easy."
(ARISTOTLE, The Nicomachean Ethics in Goleman, 1996, p.ix)
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24.03.2011
Coelho. P (2004) Eleven Minutes. London: HarperCollins
"...I simple don't fall in love. With each day that passes, I see more clearly how fragile men are, how inconstant, insecure and surprising they are[...]...I think it's just the way men are." (Coelho, 2004, p.16)
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"Love at first sight is possible, but it pays to take a second look."
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22.03.2011
Timothy A. Pychyl:
"As an educator, I've learned a great deal about pedagogical pyromania."
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28.02.2011
"Pelle sub agnina latitat mens saepe lupina".
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27.02.2011
Stereophonics-Dakota
Wake up cold coffee and juice
Remembering you
What happened to you?
I wonder if we'll meet again
Talk about us instead
Talk about why did it end
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18.02.2011
[ο Αλέξανδρος Α’ ο Μακεδών πριν από τη μάχη των Πλαταιών απευθύνεται στους Αθηναίους]
οὐ γὰρ ἂν ἔλεγον, εἰ μὴ μεγάλως ἐκηδόμην συναπάσηςτῆς Ἑλλάδος·αὐτός τε γὰρ Ἕλλην γένος εἰμὶ τὠρχαῖον, καὶ ἀντ' ἐλευθέρης δεδουλωμένην οὐκ ἂν ἐθέλοιμι ὁρᾶν τὴν Ἑλλάδα.
Δεν θα μιλούσα αν δεν ενδιαφερόμουν διακαώς για ολόκληρη την Ελλάδα· γιατί κι εγώ στην καταγωγή ανέκαθεν είμαι Έλληνας και δεν θα ήθελα να βλέπω την Ελλάδα να χάσει τη λευτεριά της και να γίνει σκλάβα.
(Ηρόδοτος 9,45)
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18.02.2011
«ΚΑΛΕΙΣΘΩ ΔΕ ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΣ».
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14.02.2011
KATHARINA
"Would Katharina had never seen him though!"
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06.02.2011
"Terminat hora diem, terminat author opus".
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Katerina Michouli 