“I like being old, even if the names I hear are more and more unfamiliar. Maybe, to paraphrase Goethe who said that, "Youth is wasted on the young," we should add that "Age can be wasted on the aged," unless one's capacity to wonder increases.” IfsShouldSaidAgeYoungNamesWonderYouthCapacityIncreaseAddUnfamiliarParaphraseBeing Old Author:Wolf Kahn
“There is no man ... however wise, who has not at some period of his youth said things, or lived a life, the memory of which is so unpleasant to him that he would gladly expunge it. And yet he ought not entirely to regret it, because he cannot be certain that he has indeed become a wise man -- so far as it is possible for any of us to be wise -- unless he has passed through all the fatuous or unwholesome incarnations by which that ultimate stage must be preceded.” MenSaidWisdomCertainMemoriesWiseStageYouthRegretOughtPeriodsUltimateIncarnationBeing Wise Book:In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower: In Search of Lost Time Source: In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower: In Search of Lost Time
“In the zone of perdition where my youth went as if to complete its education, one would have said that the portents of an imminent collapse of the whole edifice of civilization had made an appointment.” IfsMadeSaidWholeYouthCivilizationZoneCollapseAppointmentsEdificePerditionPortents Author:Guy Debord