DON'T JUDGE
Teacher, why does the Bible talk about non-judgment? Is it really that important and why? the student asked.
The teacher gave the student a balloon with some dirt on the bottom and asked him to stand in front of him and blow it up. The student began to inflate.
What do you see now? the teacher asked.
I see you and the ball.
Inflate a little more, - asked the teacher.
The student blew several times. The ball got bigger.
What do you see now?
I can hardly see you, I mostly see only a ball, along the walls of which dirt spreads, - the student answered.
Puff it up even more.
After the ball became even larger, the teacher asked again:
What do you see?
Just a dirty ball and nothing else.
Inflate more, - said the teacher and walked away.
And this time, the student obeyed, continuing to blow diligently. But the balloon couldn't stretch any longer and… Bang! It burst, spraying mud in all directions. The apprentice was speechless and stood looking at himself, all smeared with mud.
This is exactly what happens when you think about other people's shortcomings, weaknesses and sins. Because of condemnation, you stop seeing the person himself, and you see only your condemning unkind thoughts and feelings, which can burst at any moment and stain with their dirt not only yourself, but also those around you, unless, of course, you stop “inflating” your impure ideas about others.
Observant people who know how to draw conclusions from their observations know that boundless admiration will surely roll into boundless condemnation. Extremes are unstable and change their places to the opposite often. Our planet is an example of this - it changes the poles according to its mood, and even more so we are prone to this. Children.
Beloved Masha, despised Masha. The man expressed his opinion and was not afraid to express it, was not afraid of responsibility and condemnation. And that's it, they forgot that Zakharova is never afraid to say what she thinks, like Zhirinovsky. Many people liked it before, but now they don't like it?
Why should everyone love the leader, the president, the boss?
Interestingly, someone loves his boss, at least admires him, well, at least respects him, especially if the boss has an imperious character and circumstances force him to use force, make unpopular decisions?
There are such subordinates here, respond.
Dear Russians, do you respect Putin? Not only as a president, but as a person?
Our president differs from his predecessors not only in our country, but also in the world by one main quality - he looks for the good in every person in order to rely on this good and help a person get out of his delusions and folly.
He raises a person to his level and rises with him higher, closer to the true. Did not notice? If you haven't noticed, then sorry.
It is easy to love the good and the one who is like you, but this is not what we live for, it is important for us to understand those who are different from us and accept them with all the cockroaches, because you are not only your personal Self, it is everyone who comes across on the path of life. Because I am - it means I am we.
runic record az esmi.
If you don’t like something in others, it means that you are full of it, only you hide it, even from yourself. You naively think that if I close my eyes to this in myself, then this is not there (anger, fear, guilt, condemnation, contempt, etc.) But life slips those who remind you: “look, you don’t like me, but you also have a lot of the same, look into yourself and comprehend.
By judging others, you are judging the same in yourself.
There was another such head of the country - Ivan Vasilyevich, nicknamed by his enemies and envious people, the Terrible. That's who got it from contemporaries who really wanted, but could not destroy Russia and conquer Russian lands. From the descendants of those who did not understand anything in life, but really wanted freebies and servility, because they themselves were a slave to consumerism and envy. Ivan Vasilievich wanted good, he wanted to make friends out of enemies, but this was precisely what angered those who disagreed with him.
Stalin was at the right time and in the right place, but the fortitude was not enough for a wise government. There were too many enemies. Hence the excesses in decisions and fears that turned into manias, and mistakes in the selection of comrades-in-arms, but this cannot be condemned. It is necessary to understand, to understand who tried to solve their problems at the expense of the state and with the hands of Stalin. The retinue plays the king. Therefore, there were, are and will be those who admire his deeds, and who condemn his deeds. Just do not confuse deeds and personality.
By judging someone, you become like what you are judging. Like attracts like.
You may not understand this, but you will feel it, and therefore you will not find a place for yourself, and if you choose the culprit of your anxious feeling, you will do yourself even more harm than the culprit did to himself. To each according to his own business. Yours!
I want to quote the words of our wise contemporary Larichev Yu.A.
ABOUT STALINISTS AND ANTISTALINISTS
Many people like to discuss and judge Ivan the Terrible, Peter I and Stalin. Weak kings are not remembered at all.
Each era has its own leader and its own rules. There is a time that requires the people to sacrificially squeeze all the juice out of themselves.
One thing is clear, if instead of Stalin there was a stupid and soft-hearted leader, the country would not exist. And many of today's critics would not have been born, because there would be no one to be born from.
The ancestors lived the best they could. Therefore, do not judge the past, it is better to look at yourself in the mirror. You will find a lot there.
Judge yourself by your deeds. Look what you have done to the country, to the land, to the people. What kind of Mamai attacked you? And what will your descendants say about you? But they will say.
Here you are, reading these lines, remember how many times you lied and "bred", stole, cheated, squirmed, groveled, meanly "threw", cheated and betrayed, how many times you were a coward. Remember what you have done in life. Not for myself, for people. When was the last time I thought about my mother.
And it is easy to judge others, especially the great ones, who cannot be understood. Lying on the couch, for a moment imagine yourself in Putin's place. Can you do it, or will you fail?
That's it.
Therefore, do not be smart.
Recently, the number of quotes supposedly from the classics has increased many times over, and many reposts appear. What is surprising is that few people think about whether the saying really belongs to the author, which is indicated at the end of the text, or we see the fact of falsification. I don’t know how this can be explained: by inertia (well, you’re used to it, you understand, what you like to immediately mark with the “I like” button and drag it to your blog) or total illiteracy, I don’t know.
Here is a very popular quote: "If I fall asleep and wake up in a hundred years and they ask me what is happening in Russia now, I will answer - they drink and steal." And the signature: M. E. Saltykov-Shchedrin.
I have not read all of M.E. Saltykov-Shchedrin, but in those works that ran through my eyes, there is nothing of the kind. Searching for the original source on the Internet also turned up nothing. Still would! ME Saltykov-Shchedrin simply could not say anything of the sort. Yes, he could not stand the socio-political situation that developed in the middle of the 19th century, but he was a realist, not a pessimist. Even in his nightmare he could not imagine that in a hundred years in Russia there would be the same hopeless, stupid situation that he had seen before his own eyes.
Or, very often, the following quote is attributed to W. Shakespeare: "You try so hard to judge the sins of others, start with your own and do not get to strangers."
Its original source is unknown. F. Ruckert has something similar: "Are you trying so hard to count the sins of people? Start with your own, and you can hardly get to strangers" , but neither the translator nor the original is known here, so I cannot name F. Ruckert as the author of the quotation attributed to Shakespeare. Shakespeare in "Henry VI" (Part 2, act 3, scene 3) has something similar - "Don't judge him; we are all sinners" . Wed: Forbear to judge, for we are sinners all. If we assume that the quotation being parsed is a translation of this line, then it should be recognized that this is a very free translation. There is nothing like it in Shakespeare.
Of course, it is impossible to know the absolute majority of the works of the classics, but, by and large, this is not required. It is enough to understand the poetics of the author, the range of topics of his works, in order to be able to accurately correlate a quote with one or another author. And then you can get into a mess:
Whoever wants to live must fight, and whoever does not want to resist in this world of eternal struggle does not deserve the right to life. F. Nietzsche.
People tend to make sacrifices only when they can really expect success, and not when the aimlessness of these sacrifices is obvious. F. Schiller.
In fact, both quotes are attributed to Hitler, but in the end, no one cares.
You can find a huge amount of information about famous writers - how
they lived as they created their immortal works. writing business
difficult and rather labor intensive. When reading an interesting book, the reader usually does not
thinks about the characteristics of the character and lifestyle of the writer who wrote
her. But some facts of his biography or the history of the creation of one or another
The books are sometimes very entertaining and even provocative.
George Byron:
“I can’t be a genius all 24 hours, I won’t have time to shave.”
- Suffered from manic-depressive psychosis.
- The great poet Byron was lame, prone to corpulence and extremely loving
- for a year in Venice, according to some reports, he made happy with himself, lame and
thick, 250 ladies.
- Byron had an amazing personal collection - strands of hair cut
from the pubes of beloved women.
Charles Dickens:
“Near a burning candle, midges and insects always curl around, but is this really
Is the candle to blame?
- Dickens was fond of hypnosis, or, as they said then, mesmerism.
- One of Dickens's favorite pastimes was going to the Paris mortuary,
where unidentified bodies were exhibited.
- Charles Dickens always slept with his head to the north. He also sat facing
north when he wrote his great works.
Oscar Wilde
"I like to talk about nothing - it's the only thing I understand."
- Oscar Wilde did not take seriously the writings of Dickens and for any reason
laughed at them. In general, contemporary criticism of Charles Dickens is endless.
hinted that he would never make the list of the best British
writers.
- In 1878 he graduated from Oxford with honors.
- Wilde was a very peculiar and extravagant personality. And even two
spent years in prison. Oscar was convicted on charges of sodomy.
- Toward the end of his life, Wilde, for some reason, changed his name to
Sebastian Melmoth.
Ernest Hemingway
"Really brave people don't need to duel, but it's always
make many cowards to assure themselves of their own courage.
- Ernest Hemingway was not only an alcoholic and a suicide, which is all
know. He also had peyraphobia (fear of public speaking), except
moreover, he never believed the praises of even his most sincere readers and
admirers. I didn’t even believe my friends, and that’s it!
- Hemingway survived five wars, four automobile and two air
plane crash.
- Hemingway often and willingly talked about the fact that he was followed by the FBI.
The interlocutors smiled wryly, but in the end it turned out that he was right.
- declassified documents confirmed that it was indeed surveillance,
not paranoia.
Lewis Carroll
"Everyone in our world is crazy."
- In his personal diaries, Carroll constantly repented of some sin. However,
these pages were destroyed by the writer's family so as not to discredit his image.
Some of the researchers seriously believe that it was Carroll who was
Jack the Ripper, who, as you know, was never found.
- Carroll suffered from swamp fever, cystitis, lumbago, eczema,
furunculosis, arthritis, pleurisy, rheumatism, insomnia and a whole
a wide variety of diseases. In addition, he almost constantly - and
very severe headache.
- Carroll personally invented the tricycle, a mnemonic system
for remembering names and dates and an electric pen.
Franz Kafka
“They lie least when they lie least, and not when
the fewest reasons."
- Worked as a clerk. According to modern ideas, it was a typical office
plankton and loser.
- Franz Kafka was the grandson of a kosher butcher and a strict vegetarian.
- Throughout his life, he managed to publish only a few unnoticed
public stories. Before his death, he bequeathed to his executor,
Max Brod, destroy all his manuscripts. But Max Brod did not submit to the will
dying. So Franz Kafka became a world famous writer. Posthumously.
- Currently, Kafka is one of the main talismans of Prague.
William Shakespeare
“You are trying so hard to judge the sins of others, start with your own and go to others
get there."
- William Shakespeare "was born and died on the same day - April 23"
-Contemporaries claimed that Shakespeare was fond of poaching -
hunted deer in Sir Thomas Lucy's estate without any permission.
A crater on Mercury is named after Shakespeare.
- For several hundred years there have been disputes whether he was the true author
works published under his name.
Lev Tolstoy
“Often people take pride in the purity of their conscience only because they have
short memory.
- On the wedding night with Sophia Bers, 34-year-old Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy
forced his 18-year-old freshly baked wife to read those pages in his
diary, which describes in detail the amorous adventures of the writer with different
women, among others - with peasant serfs. Tolstoy wanted to
there were no secrets between him and his wife.
- Leo Tolstoy was skeptical about his novels, including War and
the world." In 1871, he sent a letter to Fet: “How happy I am ... what to write
verbose rubbish like "War" I will never again.
- Leo Tolstoy instead of a pectoral cross wore a portrait of a French
educator Zh.Zh. Rousseau.
Agatha Christie
"Conversations are invented to stop people from thinking."
- During the First World War, she worked as a nurse in a military hospital.
Later she worked in a pharmacy, because she is well versed in poisons and many murders in
her books were committed precisely with the help of poisons.
- Agatha Christie suffered from dysgraphia, that is, she practically could not write from
arms. All her famous novels were dictated.
- Brian Aldiss, an acquaintance of Agatha Christie, once spoke about her methods - “she
finished writing the book to the last chapter, then chose the most unlikely
of the suspects and, returning to the beginning, reworked some moments,
to set him up."
Anton Chekhov
"There are too many screws, wheels and valves in each of us for us to be able to
judge each other by the first impression or by two or three signs.
- Chekhov was a big fan of walking into a brothel - and, once in
foreign city, first of all studied it from this side.
- Anton Chekhov was an avid collector of postage stamps. He collected them
all life.
- Anton Chekhov was friends with the composer Tchaikovsky and even dedicated stories to him
"Gloomy morning".
- Was left for the 2nd year in the 3rd grade for lagging behind in literature.
- Chekhov sat down to write, dressed in full dress.
Arthur Conan Doyle
"Nothing is so deceptive as too obvious facts."
- Arthur Conan Doyle, who invented Sherlock Holmes, was an occultist and believed in
the existence of small winged fairies.
- Arthur Conan Doyle in the stories about Sherlock Holmes described many methods
forensics that were still unknown to the police. Among them is the collection of cigarette butts
and cigarette ashes, identification of typewriters, looking through a magnifying glass
traces at the scene. Subsequently, the police became widely
use these and other Holmes methods.
- Arthur Conan Doyle had an extremely strained relationship with Bernard Shaw,
who once referred to Sherlock Holmes as "a drug addict with no
a single pleasant quality.
- On the tombstone of Arthur, at the request of the widow, a knightly
motto: Steel True, Blade Straight ("True as steel, just like a blade").
Illustration: aihin.photodom.com
William Shakespeare deservedly considered the greatest English-language writer and one of the best playwrights in the world. His literary heritage is divided into two parts: poetic (poems and sonnets) and dramatic, and in general has 154 sonnets, 38 plays, 4 poems and 3 epitaphs. His works have been translated into most languages of the world and are staged in theaters more often than the works of any other playwright in the world.
The works of William Shakespeare are full of profound observations about human nature, love, life and friendship. Almost 5 centuries have passed, but they are still relevant today more than ever.
We have collected 25 bright and deep quotes from the works of the great playwright and poet in order to once again think about the most important thing:
- Not at all a sign of soullessness - silence. Thunders only what is empty inside.
- So sweet is honey that, finally, it is bitter. Too much taste kills the taste.
- We get irritated over trifles when we are offended by something serious.
- Oaths given in a storm are forgotten in calm weather.
- Mother nature is wise, but the son is brainless.
- Where there are few words, they have weight.
- Love flees from those who chase after it, and those who run away, throw themselves on the neck.
- Stupidity and wisdom are as easily seized as contagious diseases. So choose your comrades.
- To catch happiness, you must be able to run.
- Most people prefer stupidity to wisdom, because stupidity makes me laugh, but wisdom makes me sad.
- Men are like April when they are courting and December when they are already married.
- The hope of enjoyment is almost as pleasant as the enjoyment itself.
- Don't get too hot for your enemies, or you'll burn yourself in it..
- The success of a witty word depends more on the ear of the hearer than on the tongue of the speaker.
- What does the name mean? A rose smells like a rose, whether you call it a rose or not.
- Every madness has its own logic.
- You can fall in love with beauty, but love - only the soul.
- A crow smears its wings with mud -
No one will notice anyway
And the swan, despite all the efforts,
Can’t wash a stain from whiteness ... - One look can kill love, one look can resurrect it.
- A coward dies at every danger that threatens him, but death overtakes a brave man only once..
- The poor crushed insect suffers just like the dying giant.
- Three rules for success: know more than the rest; work harder than others; expect less than the rest.
- There is nothing bad or good in this world. There is only our attitude to something.
- The best thing is a straight and simple spoken word.
- You are trying so hard to judge the sins of others - start with your own and you won’t get to strangers.
A quote from Shakespeare, translated into Russian, was written to me here the other day. The quote is circulated and mistranslated.
Original: Forbear to judge, for we are sinners all.
Translation: You are so eager to judge the sins of others, start with your own and do not get to strangers.
Somehow I immediately remembered it in English, not so long ago I read a collection of quotes from William Shakespeare in the original that was presented to the DR.
And this is what the wrong translation prompted me to think about.
When I was young, surrounded by dictionaries and textbooks in English, books about business English and English for engineers, I came across interesting books for those who study the language. These were "Alice in Wonderland" and "Gulliver's Adventures" (abbreviated version of the title). The books were notable for the fact that on one page the text was in English, and on the next page in Russian. And if you suddenly stumbled and didn’t understand something, then you don’t have to go into the dictionary, but just look at the next page.
I really liked these books and, noticing this, a friend brought me from somewhere William Shakespeare's plays "Henry IV" in the same format. And I began to notice something was wrong. The translation is wrong! Very often, something different was written in Russian than in English, and sometimes some kind of gag in general.
I still remember the prologue of Romeo and Juliet in Pasternak's translation by heart. Yes, and you, probably, too: “Two equally respected families, in Verona, where events meet us ...”
And now it's time to be amazed!
Shakespeare wrote wrong!
Look, we all know the translation Pasternak:
Two equally respected families
In Verona, where events meet us,
Conduct internecine battles
And they don't want to stop the bloodshed.
The children of the leaders love each other,
But fate sets up intrigues for them,
And their death at the coffin doors
Puts an end to irreconcilable strife.
Their life, love and death, and moreover,
The peace of their parents on their grave
For two hours they will make up a creature
Played before you were.
Have mercy on the weaknesses of the pen -
The game will try to smooth them out.
Translation Mikhailovsky:
Two noble families
Venerable ones, they lived in Verona,
But hatred tormented them for a long time, -
They were always at odds with each other.
Their strife brought them to rebellion,
And their hands were stained with blood;
But they produced two hearts,
To evil enmity, burning with love,
And the sad fate of two loving
Stopped the old strife.
Surnames of those fierce struggle,
Lovers death, love their passionate power, -
Here is what we will now depict for you here,
I ask you for two hours of patience,
And if we miss something, then we will give
We are in action on the stage of explanation.
Translation Savic:
One day two Verona families
Having equal merit in everything,
Washed their hands in their own blood
Prejudice against each other.
Love brought their children together.
Lovers committed suicide
And only after these two deaths
Their families reconciled among themselves.
Tragic events hardcover
And a collision interrupted by death
Love with cruel hate - that's it
The plot of the two-hour performance.
And what is difficult to put into words
We'd better play in front of you.
Translation Grigorieva:
In ancient and beautiful Verona,
Where is this terrible story
The action was completed long ago, -
Two respected equally
Two glorious and high families,
To the regret of all the people,
Ancient, fierce enmity
They were drawn - that day - into a new battle.
The hands of citizens were crimsoned with blood;
But here, under the fatal star
A couple of two souls filled with love,
From those hostile wombs was born
And found in their terrible death
The enmity of childbirth is the outcome of itself and the coffin.
And now, about that unfortunate love,
Sealed by death, about the fruits
Family feuds, always irritated
And the death of only dear tamed children,
We in the faces tell you a story on these boards
Imagine. Give us attention:
We will help non-art with our efforts.
Translation Radlov:
Two houses, equal in birth
In Verona, which is our theater,
Enmity inveterate again full,
And the blood of fellow citizens stains their hands.
And now, from the loins of two fatal families
A pair of ill-fated lovers came out,
That the pitiful fate of their deaths
The hostile heat became the grave.
Their passions are a doomed course,
Rodney perseverance in that harsh dispute,
That in death only had a stop,
We will show in a two-hour representation.
So that your gaze is more tolerant of misses,
We will try our best.
Translation magpies:
Two prominent families of Verona are at enmity,
And this old squabble
Persists like bad weather
Verona is dirty with the blood of the townspeople.
Only to the young offspring of both families,
Born under an unlucky star
Tragically committed suicide
It is given to put an end to the blood feud.
Without their love, without their way to the grave
The strife would remain unquenchable.
How the strife of fathers ruined a couple of children,
In these two hours we will depict
Repairing the holes of incompetence with labor
And the audience asking for indulgence.
And finally, there was something I still wanted to say Shakespeare:
Two households, both alike in dignity,
In fair Verona, where we lay our scene,
From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,
Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.
From forth the fatal loins of these two foes
A pair of star-cross "d lovers take their life;
Whole misadventured piteous overthrows
Do with their death bury their parents" strife.
The fearful passage of their death-mark "d love,
And the continuance of their parents" rage,
Which, but their children "s end, nought could remove,
Is now the two hours" traffic of our stage;
The which if you attend with patient ears
What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend.
Great, right? :) For every taste! And somehow Pasternak's version, which we know from school, does not seem so correct, don't you think?
And because of this confusion, works and quotes from them with a changed meaning are published. And we read all this and believe, not knowing how the author actually wrote there and what he had in mind.
It's a shame like that.
But if I also knew French, then in the second round, but in the original, I re-read my favorite Jules Verne. But not fate yet.
