Jan 05
Polish poet Czeslaw Milosz:
“What has been surprising in the post-Cold War period are those beautiful and deeply moving words pronounced with veneration in places like Prague and Warsaw, words which pertain to the old repertory of the rights of man and the dignity of the person. I wonder at this phenomenon because maybe underneath there is an abyss. After all, those ideas had their foundation in religion, and I am not over-optimistic about the survival of religion in a scientific-technological civilisation. Notions that seemed buried forever have suddenly been resurrected. But how long can they stay afloat if the bottom is taken out?”
Source: Towards a Theory of Human Rights: Religion, Law, Courts, Michael J. Perry, p. 28
January 5th, 2010 at 6:23 pm
Czeslaw Milosz is The Shit:
http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1980/milosz-lecture-en.html
February 14th, 2010 at 12:38 am
Brilliant man. I was going copy & paste my favourite bits but I ended up copying whole paragraphs. The whole thing should be read really.