Here are several thoughts from philosophy and theology when the strong winds shake everything but the Wall Street banks. You can watch “Capitalism: A Love Song,” “We’re Not Broke,” “War Made Easy,” “Iraq for Sale,” “War on Whistleblowers,” “Fish Out of Water,” “The Flaw,” “The 99%,” “Tent City,” “Kennedy Legacy,” “Outfoxed” and “I’m Your Man” on www.hulu.com. Enjoy the feast!
Unlike a chair, an idea can be shared by a whole people.
Words can be like spears breaking frozen souls. (Kafka)
Education is the great transformer (John Kenneth Galbraith).
Economics as taught today is like brainwashing. (Ulrich Thielemann)
Incentives to investing in the real economy are vital after the phase of credit- and bubble prosperity, after the expansion of the financial sector and the repression of alternatives and economic ethics. Economic ethics cannot be reduced to business ethics since that would be ideology. (Ulrich Thielemann)
The neoliberal model promotes profits, not investments. (Nicolaus Kowall)
You can make fish soup out of an aquarium but can’t make an aquarium out of fish soup. (Polish proverb)
The person who says it can’t be done shouldn’t interrupt the person already doing it. {Chinese proverb)
The swan that floats and doesn’t sink represents the in transitory in the transitory. (Heidegger)
The snow gives way to the spring as the old gives way to the new. (Rilke)
Prejudice can be overcome as a stepping stone on the way to the event of understanding, the fusion of horizons. (Hans George Gadamer)
The penultimate depends on the ultimate. (Bonhoeffer)
Human community draws its breath from God’s community. Hope sets us apart from all creation. We can go beyond everything past and present int he power of the coming, the power of the promise. (Jurgen Moltmann)
God did not create the world finished like a thing that is forever the same. (Dorothee Soelle)
The language of proclamation runs crossways to the language of time. (Bonhoeffer)
