Forgive me, gentlemen, for philosophizing away like this—that comes from forty years underground! Allow me to indulge in a little fantasizing. You see, gentlemen: reason is a good thing, theres no denying it, but reason is only reason and satisfies only mans rational faculty, whereas volition is a manifestation of the whole of life—and by that I mean the whole of life, together with reason and all the headscratching that goes with it. And even if, in this manifestation, our life frequently turns out to be rubbish, it is still life and not simply the extraction of a square root. As for me, I quite naturally want to live in order to satisfy my whole capacity for living and not solely to satisfy my capacity for reasoning, which is only one-twentieth of my entire capacity for living. What does reason know? Reason only knows what it has managed to discover (the rest, perhaps, it will never discover; thats little comfort, but why not say it outright?), whereas human nature acts as a whole, with everything it comprises, conscious or unconscious; it may talk nonsense, yet it lives. ~The Underground Man
Posted on: Thu, 06 Mar 2014 04:43:29 +0000
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