Rob Riemen

“Every poet knows that the gift of the gods is not fire but language. “Man dwells poetically on this earth,” Hölderin wrote. Language is the essence of being human. We can think, thanks to language, for thought exists only by the grace of words. Our experiences and emotions are molded by language. It is language that allows us to name and know the world. We ourselves are known by language, through prayer, confession, poetry. Language gives us a world that reaches beyond the reality of the moment, to a past (there was…) and a future (there shall be…). It is through language that eternity has a space and that the dead continue to speak: “Defunctus adhuc loquitur” (Hebrews 11:4). Thanks to language, there is meaning, there is truth.”
― Rob Riemen, Nobility of Spirit: A Forgotten Ideal

“Sócrates, quien enseña que el valor es la habilidad de conquistar, no a los otros, sino a uno mismo; el valor para ser sabios y justos, el valor para cultivar nuestra alma. Quien no hace esto no es libre, y una vida sin libertad, una vida vacía y condescendiente, es una vida sin sentido y, en última instancia, sin amor.”
― Rob Riemen, Para combatir esta era: Consideraciones urgentes sobre el fascismo y el humanismo