Tag: philosophy

Daily work, motivated and disciplined, really is a holy remedy, as many spirits have said for centuries. In addition to the therapeutic effect, the directing of attention towards a just goal dissipates all kinds of distractions and counterproductive thoughts. The result, although sometimes rewarding, when unsatisfactory is innocuous to the motivation that has already been rewarded in dedicating with sincerity and strengthening in dedication. Abstaining from work, therefore, is not only harmful to health, but also unwise from the point of view of pure and true satisfaction.

All real modern problems, if not identical replicas of age-old problems, consist only of new nuances to problems whose debate has long been recorded in philosophy and whose consequences have been duly demonstrated by endless examples in history. Having both at disposal and rejecting them; wanting to come up with stupid solutions whose results have already been illustrated theoretically and practically, has to be classified, quite rightly, as an act of bad faith.

Tyranny only wins when the fear it instills paralyzes and neutralizes reaction; that is, it wins when it silences conscience. And that is why it corrupts, humiliates and kills; but it always ends up succumbing, because it cannot silence those for whom this is a lost life, which has its most beautiful and honorable justification in losing it.

As long as there is conscience, circumstances, no matter what they are, hold the possibility of acting or refraining from action. And it is always through activity that the spirit asserts itself in the world, using the time and energy available instead of wasting them. So act, imprinting conscience on the act, as long as exists the strength and conditions to do so; otherwise, life itself loses its justification.