双重火焰

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• Each minute is a knife blade of separation: How to trust our life to the blade that may slit our throat? The remedy lies in finding a balm that heals forever the wound inflicted upon us by time's hours and minutes. Ever since it appeared on earth, the human being has been incomplete whether because it had been driven out of paradise or because it is a passing stage in the evolution of life. Almost from the moment of birth, humans flee from themselves. Where do they go? In endless search of themselves. A human being is not what he is but the self he seeks. Once he catches up with himself or believes that he has, again he separates himself, leaves himself behind, continues his pursuit. He is the child of time. And time is his essence and his infirmity. The cure lies only outside time. And if... (查看原文)

  OO-san 2011-03-24 07:39:38

• Philosophical discourse turned back upon itself, examined and questioned its foundations -- the critique of reason, the critique of will, the critique of philosophy, and finally the critique of language. But the ares abandoned by philosophy were gradually taken over by the sciences, from cosmic to inner space, from stars and atoms to cells, and from cells to passions, will, thought. As the sciences constituted themselves and staked out the areas of their competence, a twofold process took place. First, the progressive specialization of knowledge; then, in the opposite direction, the appearance of lines of convergence, points of intersection between the various sciences. (查看原文)

  OO-san 2011-03-24 08:05:35

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