Posts Tagged ‘difference’

Option paralysis

Knowledge Base -> #6 Orientation

To flounder in a sea of commodities, where too much and nothing at all make no difference, having to choose out of too many stimuli and too few meaningful motives. Never before have we been so rich and wealthy as today. “We” here stands for a small part of the world population living in Europe, North America and some other parts of the globe...

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Towards eternity

Knowledge Base -> #23 Emotion and Surprise

First of all, is there a difference between the concept of excitement and surprise? Put simply, a surprise is something that happens just once and is unlikely to happen again. Excitement, on the other hand, is something more complex, it might crop up again, and in theory it could last a lifetime. Surprise also has a powerful physical aspect – it...

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Footnotes to a blank page

Knowledge Base -> #27 The Culture of Listening

You could be me. Any human being on earth could end up in my situation – that of an (im)migrant. I am not talking about tourists who give up their daily life at home to try living somewhere else for a time. I’m talking about people who pack up their lives and move to a country that is so foreign that they have to mobilise all their resources - ...

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Words

  • The meaning of colour evolves in parallel with culture.

    Odile Decq

  • Colour has always been with us and has been, and will always be, one of the great unsolved mysteries.

    Luca Massimo Barbero

  • All I do is take away colour to get to the light.

    Mario De Luigi