Tag: philosophy

Intellectually, planning is always more stimulating than acting. For many reasons, especially because of the broader, sometimes unlimited horizons and the possibility of changing them entirely without damage or complications. In other words: plans exist as if suspended in mid-air; nothing pulls them, nothing pushes them, the connections they establish are ethereal, malleable, until the very moment they are put into practice. Here, the entire structure crystallizes, and if it does not do so definitively, it does so in such a way that, from that point on, to change is to break. Intellectually, planning is undoubtedly more stimulating than acting. But action, bearing the weight of responsibility and the risk of error, is superior in terms of emotion.

By himself, man is nothing. But in him lies the potentiality of visualization which, when exercised, allows him to realize. His primary value is therefore limited to a potency. To realize it, he needs will. And he becomes something as he accomplishes something. Finally, he is destined to become the work itself.

Fiber and resilience are only possible in a man who is humble enough to admit the need to anchor his spirit in something greater. Only those whose mission does not require virtue will claim otherwise, since virtue is necessarily a continuous effort, contrary to the comfort of matter. There is no man whose spirit does not oscillate, and the higher the spirit, the more it is capable of oscillating. To realize this is to admit the need for a support, outside oneself, to push one towards the ideal that one has defined.

Existentially, there is only one relevant parameter: the degree of satisfaction the individual has with his life. From this will derive his happiness and his misery, in the most precise sense of both terms. Although very simple, and representing nothing more than the feeling of doing what one was born to do, satisfaction first requires awareness of individuality, free will and the ability to create. The rest is to continually affirm them, summing up existence itself in this act of affirmation. To do so is simply to be with awareness and plenitude, and in doing so the relevance of all other questions disappears. Those who experience satisfaction with their lives are filled with a healthy euphoria that drives them to more life. To the same extent, dissatisfaction generates the opposite impulse. Hence, in essence, happiness and misery are unrelated to comfort and refer above all to an inner state.