(It's better to create than destroy what's unnecessary)

Sunday, March 22, 2009

Hopscotch - pg. 401

THE business of the sophist, according to Aristophanes, is to invent new reasons.
Let us try to invent new passions, or to reproduce the old ones with a like intensity.
I shall analyze this conclusion once more, from a Pascalian point of view : true belief is somewhere in between superstition and libertinism.

José Lezama Lima, Tratados en La Habana

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