What is most discouraging is to see that, in the end, the dream of stability is vain… There will always be a day when, for unknown reasons, the world dawns sour, disruptive, unpleasant, and then effort, progress and reason will be questioned. And the conclusion will always be the same, that there is only full stability in what does not move, that life is antagonistic to peace…
Tag: philosophy
How Difficult It Is to Create Positive Work!
How difficult it is to create positive work! The easiest thing to do is always to let negative impressions lead you down the opposite path… and, worse still, when taking this opposite path, this path of the greatest effort, it often seems that the stamina is lacking, the reasoning fails and the result comes out as shocking, unsatisfactory. This unfortunate inclination can only be overcome with a lot of patience and willpower…
The Hard Part Is Noticing That…
The hard part is noticing that, despite all the planning, this strange force always returns and manifests itself, pushing us in an unforeseen, if not previously rejected direction. Accepting it with respect, integrating it and even valuing it is an extremely difficult task; without doing so, however, no progress is made and nothing is understood.
Seneca Said That If He Were Offered…
Seneca said that if he were offered wisdom on condition that he kept it to himself, without being able to communicate it to anyone, he would not want it. And it is really curious that even more than the delight in understanding reality is the delight in describing it, verbalizing it, which seems essential for us to prove ourselves by really mastering it, for our thinking to really be consolidated. Although possessing wisdom and being able to communicate it are different things, not knowing how to communicate it seems to us to be evidence that we do not fully possess it, and there is work to be done to reach this level.