Courage and Wisdom, A Human Strategy, Matt Berry, aphorism 231

231
But I suppose I have to interrupt here and admit that there is no difference between the terms “Courage” and “Wisdom” ... and also that they are not so prodigious of an undertaking as previously thought ... that perhaps they fall under the name of that other obscure phenomenon, of which I still can only speak of metaphorically: timing the mind to the ticks of the surface world ... cultivating a will to synchronize ... tapping the cogs of the illusory to the cadence of the actual.  Both “Courage” and “Wisdom” then would be a type of yielding.




A Human Strategy ** The Mechanics of Virtue ** Post-Atheism



Popular posts from this blog

A valuable book, A Human Strategy, aphorism 387

387 A valuable book may be torn to pieces without diminishing the human spirit, just so long as the words have already been read and understood.  To feel the loss of the book — at its material destruction, even though one had already digested its contents fully and had aligned oneself toward its overall direction — is evidence that one values the non-human being over human becoming , the static thing over the dynamic process .  In response to the fear of our unknowable future we would rather freeze ourselves into a single stage of growth at the expense of the entire metamorphosis. A Human Strategy ** The Mechanics of Virtue ** Post-Atheism
Read more
The Ascetic Impulse: We think we deliberately hurt ourselves when it is simply that we do know which version of ourselves will satisfy our needs more fully. We try on a personality as if trying on new clothes. Bizarrely, the self we beat up has heretofore been a complete stranger.
Read more