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  1. A quotation from Cicero

    MARCUS: Nor am I asham’d, as some others are, to confess I do not know, what I do not.
     
    [Nec me pudet ut istos fateri nescire quod nesciam.]

    Marcus Tullius Cicero (106–43 BC) Roman orator, statesman, philosopher
    Tusculan Disputations [Tusculanae Disputationes], Book 1, ch. 25 (1.25) / sec. 60 (1.60) (45 BC) [tr. Wase (1643)]

    More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/cicero-marcus-tulliu…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #cicero #tusculandisputations #admission #candor #ignorance #integrity #knowability #knowing #knowledge #shame #uncertainty

  2. A quotation from Cicero

    MARCUS: The power of separating the intellect from the senses, and reason from instinct, is characteristic of the highest genius.
     
    [Magni autem est ingenii sevocare mentem a sensibus et cogitationem ab consuetudine abducere.]

    Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC) Roman orator, statesman, philosopher
    Tusculan Disputations [Tusculanae Disputationes], Book 1, ch. 16 (1.16) / sec. 38 (1.38) (45 BC) [ed. Harbottle (1897)]

    More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/cicero-marcus-tulliu…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #cicero #tusculandisputations #abstraction #genius #habit #instinct #intellect #reason #senses #thought

  3. The Reality of Dreams

    Throughout Human history, dreams have fascinated, inspired and disturbed us. Where do they come from? Why do they happen? What do they mean? Different civilisations have tried to answer these questions. The Ancient Mesopotamians thought of dreams as divine messages. The most well known Mesopotamian story is the Epic of Gilgamesh, where Gilgamesh receives dreams about the future. They also had dream temples, where people would go in order to sleep and receive these divine messages in their […]

    johnbronze.wordpress.com/2026/

  4. The Reality of Dreams

    Throughout Human history, dreams have fascinated, inspired and disturbed us. Where do they come from? Why do they happen? What do they mean? Different civilisations have tried to answer these questions. The Ancient Mesopotamians thought of dreams as divine messages. The most well known Mesopotamian story is the Epic of Gilgamesh, where Gilgamesh receives dreams about the future. They also had dream temples, where people would go in order to sleep and receive these divine messages in their […]

    johnbronze.wordpress.com/2026/

  5. The Reality of Dreams

    Throughout Human history, dreams have fascinated, inspired and disturbed us. Where do they come from? Why do they happen? What do they mean? Different civilisations have tried to answer these questions. The Ancient Mesopotamians thought of dreams as divine messages. The most well known Mesopotamian story is the Epic of Gilgamesh, where Gilgamesh receives dreams about the future. They also had dream temples, where people would go in order to sleep and receive these divine messages in their […]

    johnbronze.wordpress.com/2026/

  6. The Reality of Dreams

    Throughout Human history, dreams have fascinated, inspired and disturbed us. Where do they come from? Why do they happen? What do they mean? Different civilisations have tried to answer these questions. The Ancient Mesopotamians thought of dreams as divine messages. The most well known Mesopotamian story is the Epic of Gilgamesh, where Gilgamesh receives dreams about the future. They also had dream temples, where people would go in order to sleep and receive these divine messages in their […]

    johnbronze.wordpress.com/2026/

  7. The Reality of Dreams

    Throughout Human history, dreams have fascinated, inspired and disturbed us. Where do they come from? Why do they happen? What do they mean? Different civilisations have tried to answer these questions. The Ancient Mesopotamians thought of dreams as divine messages. The most well known Mesopotamian story is the Epic of Gilgamesh, where Gilgamesh receives dreams about the future. They also had dream temples, where people would go in order to sleep and receive these divine messages in their […]

    johnbronze.wordpress.com/2026/

  8. A quotation from Cicero

    MARCUS: As a field, though fertile, cannot yield a harvest without cultivation, no more can the mind without learning.
     
    [Ut ager quamvis fertilis sine cultura fructuosus esse non potest, sic sine doctrina animus.]

    Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC) Roman orator, statesman, philosopher
    Tusculan Disputations [Tusculanae Disputationes], Book 2, ch. 5 (2.5) / sec. 13 (2.13) (45 BC) [tr. Peabody (1886)]

    More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/cicero-marcus-tulliu…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #cicero #tusculandisputations #accomplishment #cultivation #development #education #harvest #learning #mind #potential #productivity #soul

  9. Hype for the Future 214/284: Chicago West (Inner Suburbs)

    Overview The traditional inner suburbs of the western Chicago area, many of whose amenities are often described as “Chicago West,” often refer to the communities of Cicero, Berwyn, Oak Park, River Forest, and Forest Park in the western portion of the inner region. Today, the communities are each directly integrated into the urban grid system based on the Chicago city grid with public transit services often related to the inner city. Cicero The community of Cicero is a western suburban […]

    novatopflex.wordpress.com/2026

  10. Ist Freundschaft nicht eine vollwertige Beziehung, bloß ohne das körperliche halt, oder gibt es da einfach Abstufungen? Ist es ein fluides Spektrum irgendwo zwischen zufälligem Treffen, Bekanntschaft und bestem Freund dem ich meine dunkelsten Geheimnisse anvertraue? Natürlich ist es das. Freundschaften muss man gar nicht unbedingt genau definieren, entweder sie gibt einem ein positives […]

    https://blog.hamdorf.org/freundschaft/
  11. A quotation from Cicero

    For men ought not to be so elated by the dignity of the affairs which they have undertaken to manage, as to have no regard to their ease; nor ought they to dwell with fondness on any sort of ease which is inconsistent with dignity.
     
    [Neque enim rerum gerendarum dignitate homines ecferri ita convenit ut otio non prospiciant, neque ullum amplexari otium quod abhorreat a dignitate.]

    Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC) Roman orator, statesman, philosopher
    Pro Sestio [For Publius Sestius], ch. 45 / sec. 98 (56-02 BC) [tr. Yonge (1891)]

    More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/cicero-marcus-tulliu…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #cicero #prosestio #dignity #indolence #leisure #publicservice #recreation #retirement #sloth #worklifebalance #idleness #laziness #selfimportance #prestige

  12. Jörg Müller @praesolgka@bawü.social ·

    @OhWeh Der #Cicero-Titel bezieht sich wohl auf einen Artikel, der #Milei feiert und die #Hausdurchsuchung bei #Bolz nach dessen Verwendung eines #Nazi-Wordings als Meme kritisiert und das Ganze zu einer Fundamentalkritik am Staat an sich hochstilisiert.

    Die Hausdurchsuchung bei Bolz, die schlicht darin bestand, sich von ihm bestätigen zu lassen, dass er Urheber des zum #Ermittlungsverfahren führenden Postings war, kann man natürlich kritisieren. Die Strafnorm will verhindern, dass Nazi-Symbole wieder alltäglich werden. Hier stellen sich immer Fragen der #Verhältnismäßigkeit und auch des #Anfangsverdachts, wenn im Rahmen einer kritischen Auseinandersetzung derartige Memes oder Wordings z.B. ironisch oder - wie bei durchgestrichenem #Hakenkreuz
    - klar ablehnend verwendet werden.

    In dem Cicero-Artikel wird das Ganze aber plump dazu benutzt, den Staat statt als Garant für #freiheitlich-demokratische #Rechtsstaatlichkeit als Feind und Gefahr dafür zu framen, #libertär eben. Da wäre jede Differenzierung störend, logisch.

    Tatsächlich ist staatliche Macht in einem demokratischen Rechtsstaat immer regulierungs- und kritikbedürftig, damit sie Freiheit nachhaltig schützt und nicht abwürgt. Darum geht es den libertären Kräften aber nicht. Sie wollen einfach unkontrolliert ihrem Drang nach Bereicherung nachgehen können.

    Wer sich differenziert über die Durchsuchung bei Bolz informieren möchte, sei der verlinkte Artikel empfohlen.

    Und zu Deiner Frage: #Notheis und Cicero vertreten damit zwar sicher nicht die gesamte #CDU, aber ich fürchte, doch eine aktuell relevante Strömung darin, die sich gern rechtsstaatlicher Kontrolle von Regierungsmacht entledigen würde.

    lto.de/recht/hintergruende/h/b

    #Dobrindt #Spahn

  13. A quotation from Cicero

    But you were so utterly devoid of sense, that throughout the whole of your speech you were disputing with yourself, saying things which not only were inconsistent with each other, but involved direct contradiction and opposition, so that the contest was not so much between you and me as between Antonius and Antonius.
     
    [Tam autem eras excors, ut tota in oratione tua tecum ipse pugnares, non modo non cohaerentia inter se diceres, sed maxime disiuncta atque contraria, ut non tanta mecum quanta tibi tecum esset contentio.]

    Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC) Roman orator, statesman, philosopher
    Philippics [Philippicae; Antonian Orations], No. 2, ch. 8 / sec. 18 (2.8/2.18.7) (44-10-24 BC) [tr. King (1877)]

    More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/cicero-marcus-tulliu…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #cicero #argument #contradiction #debate #dispute #incoherence #inconsistency #rhetoric #selfcontradiction #selfdefeat #speech

  14. A quotation from Cicero

    No philosopher ever yet — and there has been a great deal written upon the subject — defined a mere change of plan as vacillation.
     
    [Nemo doctus umquam (multa autem de hoc genere scripta sunt) mutationem consili inconstantiam dixit esse.]

    Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC) Roman orator, statesman, philosopher
    Epistulae ad Atticum [Letters to Atticus], Book 16, Letter 7, sec. 3 (16.7.3) (44 BC) [tr. Shuckburgh (1900), # 780]

    Sourcing, notes, alternate translations: wist.info/cicero-marcus-tulliu…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #cicero #changeofmind #changemind #consistency #constancy #coursechange #inconsistency #opinion #plan #planning #vacillation

  15. Fand wegen eines Toots über #cicero und #queer (Wiederfinden hat nicht geklappt :-( .) den entsprechenden Artikel "Queer-Plan der Bundesregierung" und darüber einen Fachartikel. U.a.:

    "Genderinkongruenzgefühl"

    (aerzteblatt.de/archiv/228699/T )

    #queer, #gay Themen sollen sicher mehr Beachtung und auch Fördergelder erhalten. Aber wie weit ist der mediale Druck auf Pubertierende (Tiktok, YT,...) Ursache für die stark gestiegene "Prävalenz" für Eingriffe wie #mastectomy mitten in der Pubertät?