Another Spinoza poem found!
Baruch Spinoza
Like golden mist, the west lights up
The window. The diligent manuscript
Awaits, already laden with infinity.
Someone is building God in the twilight.
A man engenders God. He is a Jew
Of sad eyes and citrine skin.
Time carries him as the river carries
A leaf in the downstream water.
No matter. The enchanted one insists
And shapes God with delicate geometry.
Since his illness, since his birth,
He goes on constructing God with the word.
The mightiest love was granted him
Love that does not expect to be loved.
— Jorge Luis Borges,
translated by Yirmiyahu Yovel
Some more manly quotes:
Proust’s favorite metaphysician Henri Bergson (1859 - 1941) thought “every philosopher has two philosophies, his own and Spinoza’s.”
Bertrand Russell called Spinoza “the noblest and most lovable of the great philosophers.” Bloom concurs to the extent that Spinoza “was surely one of the most exemplary human beings ever to have lived,” though Bloom also finds “an icy sublimity” in Spinoza. “He was greatly cold and coldly great.”
Like golden mist, the west lights up
The window. The diligent manuscript
Awaits, already laden with infinity.
Someone is building God in the twilight.
A man engenders God. He is a Jew
Of sad eyes and citrine skin.
Time carries him as the river carries
A leaf in the downstream water.
No matter. The enchanted one insists
And shapes God with delicate geometry.
Since his illness, since his birth,
He goes on constructing God with the word.
The mightiest love was granted him
Love that does not expect to be loved.
— Jorge Luis Borges,
translated by Yirmiyahu Yovel
Some more manly quotes:
Proust’s favorite metaphysician Henri Bergson (1859 - 1941) thought “every philosopher has two philosophies, his own and Spinoza’s.”
Bertrand Russell called Spinoza “the noblest and most lovable of the great philosophers.” Bloom concurs to the extent that Spinoza “was surely one of the most exemplary human beings ever to have lived,” though Bloom also finds “an icy sublimity” in Spinoza. “He was greatly cold and coldly great.”
posted by Old Stallion at 8:45 PM
2 Comments:
Levinas, (like Buber) was a sweet man, and an enjoyable writer. However I can't think of him (or Buber) as a serious thinker.
Fergie though? She is solid gold.
I find "My Humps" to be the pinnacle of human thought.
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