"Alone, even doing nothing, you do not waste your time. You do, almost always, in company. No encounter with yourself can be altogether sterile: Something necessarily emerges, even if only the hope of some day meeting yourself again."
-E.M. Cioran (b. 1911), Rumanianborn French philosopher.
Isn't it comforting just because someone else said it and was quoted?
-E.M. Cioran (b. 1911), Rumanianborn French philosopher.
Isn't it comforting just because someone else said it and was quoted?
We are great
fools. "He has passed his life in idleness," say we: "I have done
nothing to-day." What? have you not lived? that is not only the
fundamental, but the most illustrious, of your occupations. "Had I been
put to the management of great affairs, I should have made it seen what I
could do." "Have you known how to meditate and manage your life? you
have performed the greatest work of all." In order to shew and develop
herself, nature needs only fortune; she equally manifests herself in all
stages, and behind a curtain as well as without one. Have you known how
to regulate your conduct, you have done a great deal more than he who has
composed books. Have you known how to take repose, you have done more
than he who has taken empires and cities.
montaigne. kind of overquoted but i like it anyway.
Let's go post some futuristicalisms roight now even!