Harold Harvey, Cornish Children, 1920 Non essere troppo intelligentePerché vedrai che solitudine!Scoprire l’ indifferenza delle persone,Scoprire quello che vogliono realizzare,E la loro corsa alle deboli ambizioni,E quello che possono offrire di più,E la loro abilità a fingere,E la loro superiore incomprensione,E che sono tutti, anche tu,Il frutto di un errore della natura,Prime nebulose del mondo;Che …
Luigi Russolo, Self-portrait with skulls, 1909 To be, or not to be: that is the question:Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to sufferThe slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep;No more; and, by a sleep to say we endThe heart-ache …
Christian Vincent, Waterfall, 2010 But this race we must suppose to have no other goal, nor other garland, but being foremost, and in it:To endeavour, is appetite.To be remiss, is sensuality.To consider them behind, is glory.To consider them before, is humility.To lose ground with looking back, vain glory.To be holden, hatred.To turn back, repentance.To be …
Thomas Hobbes – The Elements of Law, Natural and Politic Read More »
Giorgione, The Three Philosophers, c. 1506 Everything exists; nothing exists. Either formula affords a like serenity. The man of anxiety, to his misfortune, remains between them, trembling and perplexed, forever at the mercy of a nuance, incapable of gaining a foothold in the security of being or in the absence of being. Tutto è; niente …
Marc Chagall, Over the town, 1918 Take life lightly, for lightness is not superficiality, but a gliding over things from above, without letting things weigh on your heart. Prendete la vita con leggerezza, che leggerezza non è superficialità, ma planare sulle cose dall’alto, non avere macigni sul cuore. Go back to album – I. Calvino
Raphael (Raffaello), The School of Athens, c. 1510 Philosophy is both hunting and craving for truth. For some – like Epicureans and Stoics – philosophy is about finding a prey; others believe the peak is the search in itself, since truth only belongs to gods and wisdom is not for human, as Socrates and Plato …
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