“The concept of substance is the central tenet of Spinoza’s metaphysics. All things exist and are conceived through substance, or God, or nature, which exists and is conceived only through itself. Substance represents the singular binding force that connects things, no matter how small or disconnected in space and time they might be, for every thing participates in and is a part of a complex totality.”
― The Incorporeal: Ontology, Ethics, and the Limits of Materialism
― The Incorporeal: Ontology, Ethics, and the Limits of Materialism
“In a certain sense the past is far more real, or at any rate more stable, more resilient than the present. The present slips and vanishes like sand between the fingers, acquiring material weight, only in its recollection.”
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“Poetry is an awareness of the world, a particular way of relating to reality.”
― Sculpting in Time
― Sculpting in Time
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