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“The soul’s health is no more secure than the body’s; though we may seem safely aloof from the passions, we are no less in danger of being swept away by them, than we are of falling sick when we feel well.”

— François de La Rochefoucauld, Moral Reflections

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ComputerKIT 2026, Antonin Odin

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“It is the first sign that animal has become man when his actions are no longer directed to the procurement of momentary wellbeing but to enduring wellbeing, that man has thus become attuned to utility and purpose: it is then that the free domination of reason first breaks forth.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human, 94

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“The foolishness of people who are surprised by anything that happens. Like travelers amazed at foreign customs.”

— Marcus Aurelius, Meditations (12.13)

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“Things have their seasons, and even certain kinds of eminence go in and out of style. But wisdom has an advantage: she is eternal. If this is not her century, many others will be.”

— Baltasar Gracián, The Art of Worldly Wisdom

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National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) / Artemis II / A New View of the Moon / Photography / 2026

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“To call someone wise, seems to me too much, and proper only for a god. To call him wisdom’s lover — a philosopher — or something similar would fit him better and be more seemly.”

— Plato, Phaedrus

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Inter-Ena-Cubo, Paolo Scheggi, 1969

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PROMM is a minimalist interior renovation located in Berlin, Germany, designed by STUDIO LOES. Berlin’s older building stock presents a particular kind of design problem. Decades of incremental renovation layer contradictions into floor plans – walls moved, rooms merged, proportions lost to piecemeal decision-making.

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