Arts On Children: Note Three
posted by on August 14 at 12:59 PM
From the best chapter Feuerbach’s Essence of Christianity, “PART I, The True or Anthropological Essence of Religion”:
[T}he heathens considered man not only in connection with the universe; they considered the individual man, in connection with other men, as member of a commonwealth… Men pass away, but mankind remains, says a heathen philosopher. “Why wilt thou grieve over the loss of thy daughter?” writes Sulpicius to Cicero. “Great, renowned cities and empires have passed away, and thou behavest thus at the death of an homunculus, a little human being! Where is thy philosophy?”Always in situations that seem impossible to bear (the loss of a child, the loss of a loved one, the loss of your sight) ask yourself: “Where is thy philosophy.”
"Always in situations that seem impossible to bare..."
Homophones are your friend.
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