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Jerome · 07-28-2002, 12:14 PM

"Every moment of our life belongs to the present only for a moment; then it belongs forever to the past. Every evening we are poorer by a day. We would prehaps grow frantic at the sight of this ebbing away of our short span of time were we not secretly concious in the profoundest depthsof our being that we share in the inexhaustable well of eternity, out of which we can forever draw new life and renewed time.

You could, to be sure, base on considerations of this kind a theory that the greatest wisdom consists in enjoying the present and making this enjoyment the goal of life, because the present is all that is real, and everything else imaginary. But you could just as well call this mode of life the greatest folly: for that which in a moment ceases to exist, which vanishes as completely as a dream, cannot be worth any serious effort."

--Schopenhaur, on "The Vanity of Existence"

Something that seemed to relate to the current topic.

EDIT: For some very poor spelling. [img]tongue.gif[/img]

[ 07-28-2002, 12:16 PM: Message edited by: Jerome ]

07-28-2002, 12:14 PM	#3
Jerome Knight of the Rose Join Date: January 8, 2001 Location: Scotland Age: 39 Posts: 4,419	"Every moment of our life belongs to the present only for a moment; then it belongs forever to the past. Every evening we are poorer by a day. We would prehaps grow frantic at the sight of this ebbing away of our short span of time were we not secretly concious in the profoundest depthsof our being that we share in the inexhaustable well of eternity, out of which we can forever draw new life and renewed time. You could, to be sure, base on considerations of this kind a theory that the greatest wisdom consists in enjoying the present and making this enjoyment the goal of life, because the present is all that is real, and everything else imaginary. But you could just as well call this mode of life the greatest folly: for that which in a moment ceases to exist, which vanishes as completely as a dream, cannot be worth any serious effort." --Schopenhaur, on "The Vanity of Existence" Something that seemed to relate to the current topic. EDIT: For some very poor spelling. [img]tongue.gif[/img] [ 07-28-2002, 12:16 PM: Message edited by: Jerome ]