- EAN13
- 9782384690053
- Éditeur
- Human and Literature Publishing
- Date de publication
- 29/03/2022
- Langue
- anglais
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Aide EAN13 : 9782384690053
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So long as man does not bother about what he is or whence he came or whither
he is going, the whole thing seems as simple as the verb "to be"; and you may
say that the moment he does begin thinking about what he is and whence he came
and whither he is going, he gets on to a lot of roads that lead nowhere, and
that spread like the fingers of a hand or the sticks of a fan; so that if he
pursues two or more of them he soon gets beyond his straddle, and if he
pursues only one he gets farther and farther from the rest of all knowledge as
he proceeds. You may say that and it will be true. But there is one kind of
knowledge a man does get when he thinks about what he is, whence he came and
whither he is going, which is this: that it is the only important question he
can ask himself...
Of the great many things which man does which he should not do or need not do,
if he were wholly explained by the verb "to be," you may count walking. Of
course if you build up a long series of guesses as to the steps by which he
learnt to walk, and call that an explanation, there is no more to be said...
Walking is the natural recreation for a man who desires not absolutely to
suppress his intellect but to turn it out to play for a season. All great men
of letters have, therefore, been enthusiastic walkers (exceptions, of course,
excepted). Shakespeare, besides being a sportsman, a lawyer, a divine, and so
forth, conscientiously observed his own maxim, "Jog on, jog on, the footpath
way"; though a full proof of this could only be given in an octavo volume.
Anyhow, he divined the connection between walking and a "merry heart"; that
is, of course, a cheerful acceptance of our position in the universe founded
upon the deepest moral and philosophical principles...
he is going, the whole thing seems as simple as the verb "to be"; and you may
say that the moment he does begin thinking about what he is and whence he came
and whither he is going, he gets on to a lot of roads that lead nowhere, and
that spread like the fingers of a hand or the sticks of a fan; so that if he
pursues two or more of them he soon gets beyond his straddle, and if he
pursues only one he gets farther and farther from the rest of all knowledge as
he proceeds. You may say that and it will be true. But there is one kind of
knowledge a man does get when he thinks about what he is, whence he came and
whither he is going, which is this: that it is the only important question he
can ask himself...
Of the great many things which man does which he should not do or need not do,
if he were wholly explained by the verb "to be," you may count walking. Of
course if you build up a long series of guesses as to the steps by which he
learnt to walk, and call that an explanation, there is no more to be said...
Walking is the natural recreation for a man who desires not absolutely to
suppress his intellect but to turn it out to play for a season. All great men
of letters have, therefore, been enthusiastic walkers (exceptions, of course,
excepted). Shakespeare, besides being a sportsman, a lawyer, a divine, and so
forth, conscientiously observed his own maxim, "Jog on, jog on, the footpath
way"; though a full proof of this could only be given in an octavo volume.
Anyhow, he divined the connection between walking and a "merry heart"; that
is, of course, a cheerful acceptance of our position in the universe founded
upon the deepest moral and philosophical principles...
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