“Actual knowledge is identical with its object: in the individual, potential knowledge is in time prior to actual knowledge, but in the universe as a whole it is not prior even in time. Mind is not at one time knowing and at another not. When mind is set free from its present conditions it appears as just what it is and nothing more: this alone is immortal and eternal (we do not, however, remember its former activity because, while mind in this sense is impassible, mind as passive is destructible), and without it nothing thinks.” ThinkingMindSoulWholeRememberUniverseIndividualKnowingConditionsObjectsActivityEternalFormerImmortalOne TimePassiveIdentical Book:The Philosophy Collection [97 Books] Source: The Philosophy Collection [97 Books]
“Two aesthetics exist: the passive aesthetic of mirrors and the active aesthetic of prisms. Guided by the former, art turns into a copy of the environment's objectivity or the individual's psychic history. Guided by the latter, art is redeemed, makes the world into its instrument, and forges, beyond spatial and temporal prisons, a personal vision.” WorldArtTwoTurnsIndividualVisionEnvironmentArt IsMirrorsInstrumentsPrisonActiveFormerLatterCopiesAestheticPassivePsychicsAestheticsObjectivityRedeemedPrismsSpatialPersonal Vision Author:Jorge Luis Borges
“The nation as such is not a large subject that has needs, that works, practices economy, and consumes. . . . Thus the phenomena of “national economy” . . . are, rather, the results of all the innumerable individual economic efforts in the nation and . . . must also be theoretically interpreted in this light. . . .Whoever wants to understand theoretically the phenomena of “national economy” . . . must for this reason attempt to go back to their true elements, to the singular economies in the nation, and to investigate the laws by which the former are built up from the latter.” WantNeedsReasonLightLawIndividualNationsResultsEffortPracticeEconomyEconomicSubjectsElementsBuiltFormerLatterNational Economy Author:Ralph Raico