Every preface is more or less useless, and because that is the norm, it is natural that, from the very first line, it tends to bore the reader. In other words: if something really important is to be said about the work, let it be said there. However, the practice legitimizes prefaces, even if they rarely prove useful. But there are prefaces, God!, there are prefaces which, not satisfied with their own uselessness, want to jeopardize the work that has not even begun! There is nothing more annoying than this idle display of erudition, which fills the lines with foreign terms and pretends to express a depth that the work itself is incapable of. We read them and we feel imbued with an immediate and one hundred percent unnecessary antipathy towards the author. The question is: why, God, why?
Category: Sem categoria
When Faced With What He Does Not Know
The better he who, when faced with what he does not know, keeps quiet instead of doubting. And if he does not feel confident in his perception, and if he is really interested in the object of his current ignorance, let him study, listen and, above all, want to know. And let him stay that way for as long as it takes, studying, listening and wanting. One day, perhaps, he will know; and he will value the knowledge he has acquired. If, however, he does not get to know, at least he will have maintained a posture that he can never be ashamed of.