If, as has been said, intelligence begins with the ability to marvel, it also follows that the more the notion of normality spreads, the more difficult it is for intelligence to manifest itself. In other words: starting with the universe, passing through nature, through society and culminating in the details of everyday life, looking at all of this and seeing it as natural, ordinary, instead of being amazed at the extraordinary succession of factors necessary to generate it, is actually restraining the manifestation of intellect. Facebook Twitter WhatsApp Email ..read more

It is hard to say, but this frustrated longing for isolation, which has to be accepted as unfeasible and fought over in an apparently hostile daily life, seems more beneficial to the artist than actual, full and consummate isolation. In the first case, we have a spirit energized by circumstance; in the second, an incentive to inertia. In the first case, an effort that renews and justifies the longing, which makes the artist value isolation much more when it is partially achieved—because this is the truth: his longing, at worst, can always be partially achieved, and to better advantage than one ..read more

There are things that can only be learned by giving in, and things that can only be learned by working in the interests of others, things whose value has increased enormously since they are so rare in modern times. Better than learning them, however, is remembering them through practice, overcoming the trap of understanding a poor reality by understanding it only in the part that is around the self. Facebook Twitter WhatsApp Email ..read more

Ortega y Gasset’s approach to the problem of circumstance is one of the most lucid shots in modern philosophy. That is: the notion that there is no need to rebel against it, but rather to integrate it, or at least make a continuous effort to integrate it into the personality, something that can only be achieved by learning what it has to teach. This problem, in fact, has intensified as the turning of the eyes inwards has become popular, an act that, if radicalized, ends up repudiating external reality. It turns out that this repudiation never achieves the desired effects, resulting only in dis ..read more

To live is to be in a position to do something, but it is also the need to do it, which is rationally confirmed and admitted by the choice to continue living. One only lives because one has to act, and without this primary notion nothing truly great can be done. Facebook Twitter WhatsApp Email ..read more

He who suffers the most tends to become the strongest, he who is most disappointed tends to become the most prudent, he who is most deceived tends to become the most forewarned. In all these cases, however, the benefit does not materialize without a personal effort to transform the unpleasant experience, which begins with accepting and understanding it, accepting oneself as vulnerable and understanding what happened as a starting point. Man never evolves passively. Facebook Twitter WhatsApp Email ..read more

Every man always ends up enduring more than he thinks he can because, one day or another, the unexpected forces him to do so and forces him to adapt, allowing an unprecedented strength to emerge from within him under the stimulus of imperative necessity. Modern man, whose daily life seems to concatenate a succession of false certainties, conveying a misleading impression of security, hides from him the notion of his true vigor. Facebook Twitter WhatsApp Email ..read more

The realistic and objective fictional narrative, if held and practiced as a dogma, ends up depriving the writer of this true delight that is style, since, by definition, to be realistic and objective is to adopt, so to speak, an “impersonal style”. But this delight, experienced by the poet, the philosopher, the historian and anyone else who understands the individual element necessary for writing, and without which the work is devoid of a link with reality apprehended in the first person, is also an unparalleled incentive to refine expression. The satisfaction of shaping words is the satisfact ..read more

In no way can the thirst for domination be considered virtuous, although it is a ubiquitous feature of history. Every conceivable reason has been well documented to condemn it, and yet the present century sees it expanding by ever more powerful means, without at least a consensus that it is urgent to curb it, stop it, expose it and subjugate it. Experiencing consequences as obvious and easily perceptible as those we are seeing is something that even animals cannot afford. Facebook Twitter WhatsApp Email ..read more

Before becoming an obsession or a futile refinement, focusing on form means respecting the value of what is intended to be expressed. It means not wanting to present it sloppily, but in a way that does it justice. It is therefore a natural concern for anyone who does not have fun throwing words to the wind, but works with matters of real and personal importance. Facebook Twitter WhatsApp Email ..read more