Tag: philosophy

It is possible to draw parallels between coetaneous lives and identify, in the vast majority of cases, decisive periods that occurred at very close ages in which similar themes emerged. It is necessary to see and compare them over and over again. This evident and verifiable fact is perhaps the strongest argument of those who assert that there is a correlation between time and individual existences, especially since it is noted that many of the themes which stand out do not occur as a result of convention or something induced by the environment: one notices, over and over again, periods when genius seems to manifest, and periods when luck seems to decide. From the moment one acquires enough courage to assume it, one can no longer bear the absence of the why…

What kills man is pride; it is what blurs the vision and clouds the living. Human dignity boils down to doing the best of what is possible, but what is possible never satisfies the pride. From it springs an insatiable yearning and a discontentment with what is enough to fill modest eyes. So it represents the disgust, the castration and the burial of the stimulus that, for many who never expected it, proved that the possible is sometimes distorted by the vision.

The more one understands about life, the more the capacity to accept limitations becomes necessary; in short, the more humility becomes indispensable. Curiously, nature seems to make it more difficult the more one knows, when knowing is also necessary to improve it. Therefore, to cultivate it is to act rationally against nature, which seems to be the greatest obstacle—and the most important one to overcome—to full intellectual development.

He who realizes that time is the substance of life concludes, by deduction, that he will live as well as he can use the time at his disposal. Then he will realize, first of all, that he has no time at his disposal but now, and that therefore, extending the previous conclusion, he will live as well as he can use the now. The next step is the one that often discourages, and sometimes leads to suicide. The good use of the now is conditioned to means only partially controllable and always subject to the wheel of fortune. So, for some, it is possible to cling to a probable time as an ally against the more that fortune can get in the way of their objectives; but for others, who are averse to the indefinite, whose wisdom demands that they cling only to what is certain, it is unbearable to find that, for certain, there is only submission to the most immediate need.