Something more than just learning a new language. Not so simple as that. Learning a new language implies having already learnt the first one. Learning a new language isn't just about the words. There is the context, the history, culture, and sense. There is the need to read and read and read. To observe, feel, and breathe. Now that's learning
Monday, 27 April 2015
Xenophanes of Colophon
Mortals consider that the Gods are born, and that they have clothes and speech and bodies like their own. The Ethiopians say that their Gods are snub nosed and black, the Thracians that their Gods have light blue eyes and red hair. But if cattle and horses or lions had hands or were able to draw, horses would draw their forms of their Gods like horses, cattle like cattle.
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