“We breathe too fast to be able to grasp things in themselves or to expose their fragility. Our panting postulates and distorts them, creates and disfigures them, and binds us to them. I bestir myself, therefore I emit a world as suspect as my speculation which justifies it; I espouse movement, which changes me into a generator of being, into an artisan of fictions, while my cosmogonic verve makes me forget that, led on by the whirlwind of acts, I am nothing but an acolyte of time, an agent of decrepit universes. (...) If we would regain our freedom, we must shake off the burden of sensation, no longer react to the world by our senses, break our bonds. For all sensation is a bond, pleasure as much as pain, joy as much as misery. The only free mind is the one that, pure of all intimacy with beings or objects, plies its own vacuity.” MindActionFreedomFictionMovementThoughtPurityBondageSensationElusiveness Of The Real Book:The Temptation to Exist Source: The Temptation to Exist
“A historical fact, though we may have a feeling of trust and solidity about the word, is one of the most elusive things in the world. [How to Read a Book (1972), P. 231]” Historical FactsElusiveness Of The RealElusiveness Of Historical Facts Author:Mortimer J. Adler and Charles Van Doren