News of program, Wisdom of the Great » Mahatma Gandhi. Wisdom and Philosophy |
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17 July 2013 | Views: 1639 Mahatma Gandhi [/b] (1869-1948) — one of the leaders and ideologist of the national liberation movement of India. His philosophy of non-violence Satyagraha had an impact on national and international movements of those who supported peaceful changes. He rejected violence in any form. For more than 30 years he persistently preached his philosophy and finally proved the effectiveness of non-violence policy to the whole world when India peacefully gained independence from Britain thanks to Gandhi’s efforts in 1947. But a savage struggle broke out between religious groups for the right to dictate their will to the government in the awakening country. The year of 1947 ended with bitter disappointment for Gandhi. He kept proving the fatuity of violence but nobody seemed to listen to him. In January 1948, in a desperate attempt to stop the interethnic strife Mahatma Gandhi resorted to a hunger strike. He explained his decision this way: “Death will become a miraculous escape for me. It is better to die than to be a helpless eyewitness of India’s self-destruction”. |
News of program, Wisdom of the Great » Jorge Bucay’s Proverbs |
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4 June 2013 | Views: 1707 Today in ‘Wisdom of the Great’ column we would like to introduce to our readers the star of modern Argentine literature, famous psychologist and psychotherapist, Jorge Bucay. His books have been translated into 18 languages of the world; the total print exceeds 2 million of copies. Latin –American writers say that daily you may meet in public transport, at least, two or three persons reading Doctor Bucay’s books absorbedly. Critics remark: ‘This wisdom and, undoubtedly, optimistic writer has an apparent ability to say simply about complicated things. Reading of his books may be equaled to a trip to real psychotherapist.’ Jorge Bucay’s writings are notable for fascinating plot, humor and wisdom, they impress optimism and help people to live, love and understand themselves. |
News of program, Wisdom of the Great » 10 Wise Sayings by Albert Einstein |
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12 April 2013 | Views: 1342 Today we want to remember an interesting person, one of the founders of modern theoretical physics, a laureate of Nobel Prize in1921, Albert Einstein (1879-1955). Definitely most of us remember his photo with tongue put out, old man Albert had a good sense of humor: One day Einstein walked along the corridor of Princeton and met a young and extremely untalented physical scientist. Coming up to Einstein the scientist familiarly gave a smack on his shoulder and asked patronizingly: -How are you getting on, colleague? Einstein questioned in surprise: - Colleague? Are you suffering from rheumatism too? (http://www.albert-einstein.ru/facts/) All know the great scientist Einstein, but few people know that he was dedicated pacifist and philosopher, he thought a lot about life, a human being and humanity. Let us ponder over his ten wisdom sayings. These ideas reserved for dozens of years and now remain actual and popular. |
Wisdom of the Great » Abai’s Word |
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26 March 2013 | Views: 1449 Abai Qunanbayev (1845-1904) was a great Kazakh enlightener, poet, classic and composer. Abai played a great part in creation of literary Kazakh language and left uneclipsed, artistic heritage. In The Book of Words the philosopher ponds over about a human being and humanity, about difficult contradictory world, about science and education, customs, traditions and history of his nation. We publish here some extracts from this work. Even nowadays Abai’s words sound acutely and modernly. |
Wisdom of the Great » Conversation of a rich man with the Prophet about charity |
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18 February 2013 | Views: 1365 Gibran Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931) – a famous Lebanese-American philosopher, artist, poet and writer of the XX century. He was born in Bsharri, wherefrom he, at the age of 12, with his mother and sisters immigrated to the USA. The Prophet (1923), the book famed Kahlil Gibran, was the peak of the poet’s philosophy and was translated to more than 100 languages. Introduce our readers the extract from this great work – conversation of a rich man with the Prophet about charity: |