Bidane

“It's only because of their stupidity that they're able to be so sure of themselves.”
― Franz Kafka, The Trial

“When we say of things that they are finite, we understand thereby that they not only have a determinateness, that their quality is not only a reality and an intrinsic determination, that finite things are not merely limited . . . but that on the contrary, non-being constitutes their nature and being. Finite things are, but their relation to themselves is that they are negatively self-related and this very relation drives them beyond their being. They are, but the truth of this being is their destruction. The finite not only alters, as anything does, but it ceases to be, and it is not merely a possibility that it ceases to be, as though it could be that it might not cease. No, the nature of the being of finite things is that they have within them the seeds of their own destruction; the hour of their birth is the hour of their death.”
― Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Science of Logic

“La gente se acostumbra a trabajar. Trabajar, básicamente, es obedecer. Las costumbres son lapas. El ocio es secundario, sólo para los tiempos muertos. ¡Tiempos muertos! ¿Tiempos muertos? De momento, el tiempo jamás ha muerto ni un solo momento. Habitualmente, cuando el tiempo de ocio se extiende a lo largo de todo el día, se hace más difícil de sobrellevar que el trabajo (forzado o forzoso). ¿Por qué? Quizá porque el ocio exige más. Exige pensamiento individual. Exige decisiones. Y es más fácil trabajar que pensar. Es más fácil dejarse llevar que tomar la iniciativa. Sin preguntarse hacia donde se dirige la corriente. Tras muchos años trabajando y trabajando, de repente, llega ese tiempo para otras cosas. Es decir, el verdadero tiempo, la esencia: el ocio: el tiempo propio: el irse a dar un paseo con el tiempo de la mano y dejarlo jugando en los columpios mientras te bebes una cerveza.”
― Luis Ángel Campillos Morón

“Because,' she said, 'when you're scared but you still do it anyway, that's brave.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline