Nature has made us frivolous
to console us for our miseries.
(Voltaire: Philosophical Dictionary.)
Κατηγορία: Philosophy
Voltaire, «Antiquity…»
Antiquity is full of eulogies
of another more remote antiquity.
(Voltaire: Philosophical Dictionary.)
Mencius, «The great man…»
The great man is he
who has not lost
the heart of a child.
(Mencius.)
Montesquieu, «Mediocrity…»
Mediocrity is a hand-rail.
(Montesquieu: Mes pensées.)
Pascal, «Continuous eloquence…»
Continuous eloquence is tedious.
(Pascal: Pensées.)
Agathon, «Art is in love…»
Art is in love with luck, and luck with art.
(Agathon: Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics.)
Carlyle, «The coldest…»
The coldest word was once
a glowing new metaphor.
(Carlyle: Past and Present.)
Jean Paul Richter, «Freedom…»
Freedom produces jokes
and jokes produce freedom.
(Jean Paul Richter: Introduction to Aesthetics.)
Nietzsche, «When we are tired…»
When we are tired,
we are attacked by ideas
we conquered long ago.
(Nietzsche.)
Nietzsche, «Those who are slow…»
Those who are slow to know
suppose that slowness
is the essence of knowledge.
(Nietzsche: The Gay Science.)