![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This privilege, which he alone possesses, of being a sovereign and unique subject amidst a universe of objects, is what he shares with all his fellow-men. But between the past which no longer is and the future which is not yet, this moment when he exists is nothing. At every moment he can grasp the non-temporal truth of his existence. He asserts himself as a pure internality against which no external power can take hold, and he also experiences himself as a thing crushed by the dark weight of other things. He is still a part of this world of which he is a consciousness. “Rational animal,” “thinking reed,” he escapes from his natural condition without, however, freeing himself from it. A new paradox is thereby introduced into his destiny. Man knows and thinks this tragic ambivalence which the animal and the plant merely undergo. “THE continuous work of our life,” says Montaigne, “is to build death.” He quotes the Latin poets: Prima, quae vitam dedit, hora corpsit. It is the place of good andĮvil, according to what you make it.” MONTAIGNE. “Life in itself is neither good nor evil. ![]()
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