Two truths that most men will never believe: one that we know nothing, the other that we are nothing. Add the… — Giacomo Leopardi
Two truths that most men will never believe: one that we know nothing, the other that we are nothing. Add the third, which depends a lot on the second: that there is nothing to hope for after death.
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Pleasure is always in the past or in the future, never in the present.
Those innumerable and immense questions about time and space, argued over from the beginnings of metaphysics onward, by metaphysicians of every century, are none other than wars of words, caused by misunderstandings, and imprecision of thought, and limited ability to understand our mind, which is the only place where time and space, like many other abstract things, exist independently and for themselves, and are something.
No one can truthfully boast or say in anger: I cannot be unhappier than I am.
