A World Apart / Eine Welt für Sich / Um mundo Distante / Un mundo Aparte

The actual World is the best possible World, God could not have created anything better. The best possible World is sometimes characterized as containing the most harmony, that is, as much variety and as much order as possible, containing the most essence and possibility. The actual World is the best possible World and thus the most suitable object of God's choice. Given ...

I think, therefore I Am / Ich denke, also bin Ich / Penso, portanto Sou / Pienso, por lo tanto Soy

Consciousness is an elusive concept, and efforts towards understanding it swing between philosophy and neuroscience, between thought experiments and measurable tests of brain activity. Philosophers and scientists are continually coming up with new theories on why or how they think that the physical brain can bring the metaphysical mind into being. During his entire life, Descartes was ...

1960-01-04 Villeblevin, France / Response to the Absurd / Antwort auf das Absurde / Resposta ao Absurdo / Respuesta al Absurdo

Camus died on 4 January 1960 at the age of 46, in a car accident near Sens, in Le Grand Fossard in the small town of Villeblevin. In his coat pocket was an unused train ticket. He had planned to travel by train with his wife and children, but at the last minute he accepted his publisher's proposal ...

1986-02-17 Ojai, USA / The Mirror of Reality / Der Spiegel der Wirklichkeit / O Espelho da Realidade / El espejo de la Realidad

Man can not come to it through any organization, through any creed, through any dogma, priest or ritual, not through any philosophical knowledge or psychological technique. He has to find it through the mirror of relationship, through the understanding of the contents of his own mind, through observation and not through intellectual analysis or introspective ...

Silence / Ruhe / Silêncio / Silencio

Silence, the greatest happiness on earth very often comes only through solitude into the heart / Ruhe, das höchste Glück auf Erden kommt sehr oft nur durch die Einsamkeit in das Herz / Silêncio, a maior felicidade no mundo muitas vezes só vem através de solidão no coração / Silencio, la mayor felicidad en el mundo muchas vezes ...