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I wasn't planning on posting today, until I suddenly remembered having captured some fences after our visit to the museum last week. What a smile when I stumbled onto this image - one of many but one of a kind from that day. It immediately reminded me of the very mood of Philosopher's Walk.
HFF after all!
Rambling up the southern side of the Heiligenberg, across the Neckar from the castle, one will find the Philosopher's Walk. Its name, it is said, stems from the fact that university professors and philosophers walked there, perhaps using the solitude of the forest and the incredible views of the city and surrounding area for inspiration. If you visit Heidelberg during the summer months, you will notice an interesting feature about the Philosopher's Walk – it has a climate which is much more temperate, almost Mediterranean-like, than that of the valley. In fact, you will see many plants growing here that normally cannot thrive in the northern, more milder weather, such as lemon trees, pomegranates, cypresses, and palm trees...
...taken at the CCIB, Centre de Convencions Internacional de Barcelona, during the EACTS Annual Meeting...
Barcelona, Spain...
Kind of an awkward question.
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From Saving the world from war to eating a good meal, anything could be his thought in that particular moment. No chance of knowing for sure.
Waist level shot.
North wing of the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto; behind this door is the Philosopher's Gallery event space. This is the original 1914 building designed by the firm Darling and Pearson. Intruding on it is the Michael Lee-Chin Crystal designed by Daniel Libeskind and opened in 2007.
‘This item is likely to increase in value as the years pass….’ it says on the box. lol. Gift shopping at QAG.
the other parts of the series:
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limited edition 1/15
While walking around a park that I had newly discovered, I found this elderly gentleman. He was sitting on some rocks bordering the river, hunched over and intently writing something, while a group of fishermen chatted happily not too far in front of him. I could see that he was an observer of the Jewish faith and, as this was taken on a Saturday (the Sabbath), I presume that he was engaged in some religious reflection.
The shot might have been interesting with everything visible, but I knew that the lighting would make that difficult. I figured that a silhouette shot might work nicely here. Exposure metering was locked on the water. The only thing that I would redo about this shot would be to close down the aperture - the shallow depth of field isn't really necessary when dealing with silhouettes, in my opinion.
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“A pessimist only sees the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides and shrugs; an optimist doesn't see the clouds at all--he's walking on them.”
Leonard L. Levinson
Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
I took philosophy in university, loved the course, Socrates was one of my favourites.
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What you will find in Heaven
First attempt of the Philosopher
Trying to leave the desert
HKD
Die Erde befindet sich im Himmel
Der erste Versuch des Philosophen, die Wüste zu verlassen.
HKD
Wer strebend sich bemüht, den können wir erlösen.
J.W.v.Goethe (Faust II)
Scholars have long known that fishing eventually turns men into philosophers. Unfortunately, it is almost impossible to buy decent tackle on a philosopher's salary. ~Patrick F. McManus
Dear friends and visitors, this is the last picture from Flores. Now comes Christmas and after i invite you to travel along with me to some ancient places and volcanos of Java. Thank you so much for following so far.
I wish everyone of you happy holidays and - if you celebrate it - a merry Christmas!
Pelicans look like old Philosophers to me. The have such a serious look on their faces and the way the flock together, makes me think that they are busy with some very serious discussion.
This one was shot at the Alipore Zoological Gardens in Kolkata.
The zoo is in a pathetically bad shape today, with only a few creatures left for people to see. But I like going back to this place every winter to see the migratory birds that come. Sad thing is that, with pollution increasing day by day, the number of the birds flying in is decreasing very rapidly.
location: Tetsugaku no Michi - The Philosopher's Walk , Kyoto city ,Kyoto prefecture,Japan
京都 哲学の道
The Philosopher's Walk (哲学の道 Tetsugaku-no-michi, lit. Path of Philosophy) is a pedestrian path that follows a cherry-tree-lined canal in Kyoto, between Ginkaku-ji and Nanzen-ji. The route is so-named because the influential 20th-century Japanese philosopher and Kyoto University professor Nishida Kitaro is thought to have used it for daily meditation. It passes a number of temples and shrines such as Hōnen-in, Ōtoyo Shrine, and Eikan-dō Zenrin-ji. It takes about 30 minutes to complete the walk, although many people spend more time visiting the sights along the way. On the northern part of the walk, there are good views of the nearby Daimonji. The walk is a popular destination for tourists and locals, especially during hanami. - Wikipedia
Naples Museum of Arcaelogy
Particolare Philosopher Campana
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This Statuette was gifted to my father by a colleague many years ago. It was meant to represent him, and thus the label "le Penseur" (french for "the philosopher"). My dad was a very deep thinker. On it is my dad's old set of prayer beads.
...Long had the s mall state ruled by the Forestmen been plagued by infighting civil war and dispute on which philosopher or saint who had the right teachings and was a successor to the great philosopher Saint Marx...
Some followed Saint Mao others followed a violent mythical figure know as Man of Steele, some followed teaching by some communist called just "the savior"
...anyhow, for decades civil wart after civil war depleted resources and the peasantry who was force conscripted to different armies where all missing eyes and limbs which made production in the fiefdom fall even lower, there were even peasant rebellions on their turf, which they had to repress.
...but still it hurt their image of themselves as the schooled and literate protectors of the childish but noble lower classes they had sworn to protect from the grasping talons of the vulture of capitalism...
...one time the peasant population proposed an alternative to the costly wars or as theirs spoke-person said:
Hey Master, you are all intellectual and all that jazz, but we in the lower classes have a proposal, when you booky fellow with mighty smart heads and knowledge have a disagreement why don´t you make a duel of a non lethal kind... an whoever is the winner of this tiny tiny battle, his saint and or prophet´s worlds will rule for a week...
...Ok, now all the sides and factions started reading their literature and they all found a passage in Saint Marx book where it said:
"instead of waging wars on your near-brother factions, thy shall unite agains the common enemy who has a further different world-view than your two competing factions, as long as this present state is in use the one who wins either a duel 2x3 shall lead the common faction for a week"
so The Great Saint Marx had predicted this, so it was worth a try, all factions stopped their infighting and once a week three duelists from every faction solved their disagreement in front of the holy tree-fortress that Saint Marx wrote his holy book under and later fortified as the first Tree-fortress... well that was how the legend goes, since no one is any longer alive who ever met Saint Marx or his disciples or the disciples of the disciples that spread his words in revolutionary circles...
A great tree,...
He might even be a poet....
Le philosophe dit:
Amis, allez voir le poète,...
Et le poète raconte,...:
Qui a su aimer la Terre,..
a aimé,...L'éternité!....
NO! Don't diet before your Thanksgiving meal! The right way to prepare is to gorge yourself all week previous to Thanksgiving so the stomach is stretched enough to accomodate all the extra load on Thursday! Heck, You can always diet on Friday............
The Philosopher, Harpocrates (1593) by Jan Harmensz Muller at the Allentown Art Museum.