Sunday 4 August 2013
"Did I do everything I could do, or did the mice just need to play" (RHCP 2011)
... or...
"I’m a loaded gun pointed at the mirror
A drugstore cowboy whose end is near yeah baby
I’m a big time schemer with broken down dreams
I’m a derelict rebel without a cause
I ain’t the cat with the sharpest claws no baby
Cause sometimes life just ain’t what it seems" (Mr Ness)
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Francesco Alberoni said:
ReplyDelete"En vän är den som varje gång får oss att skymta målet och följer oss en bit på vägen"
"Vänskapen är något givet, den är inget problem, den är ett väg, inte ett mål"
"Vad som ger vänskapen dess oegennyttiga och sublima karaktär är att en vän erkänner och sätter värde även på våra oväsentliga dygder"
"En vän är den som anar och framkallar det bästa hos oss, vår bästa och mest medmänskliga sida, den mest spontana, mest ärliga, oavundsamma och vänliga"
"Den preferens som vänskap begär är individuell hänsyn, kännande av den egna personligheten som är unik"
"Vänskapen är möjlig endast när den inte är baserad på ojämlikhet och behov utan på det som bägge är i sig själva, på det som bidrar till att bygga upp den andres personlighet"
"Allt som har ett värde, således också vänskapen, måste inom sig bära övergången från inget till allt. Om det inte finns ett tomrum finns det ingenting som kan fyllas"
"En vän tillåter oss att avvika från vardagens väg för att upptäcka en annan värld som eljest skulle ha varit oåtkomlig. En vän är alltid den som förstår oss, som ser bortom vårt yttre och gör oss rättvisa. En vän är slutligen alltid dn som hjälper oss att gå dit vårt öde kallar oss, även till priset att mista oss"
"Varje form av vänskap längtar faktiskt efter olympisk lugn, ett lugnt möte utan hinder. Aktivitet utgör därför vänskapens hinderorgan, det som den måste konfronteras med och övervinna för att förverkligas. Det som är vänskapens viktigaste önskemål - mötet - ernås i pausen, nästan av en slump"
Aristoteles said:
ReplyDelete"But as regards good friends, should we have as many as possible, or is there a limit to the number of one's friends, as there is to the size of a city? You cannot make a city of ten men, and if there are a hundred thousand it is a city no longer. But the proper number is presumably not a single number, but anything that falls between certain fixed points. So for friends too there is a fixed number perhaps the largest number with whom one can live together (for that, we found, thought to be very characteristic of friendship); and that one cannot live with many people and divide oneself up among them is plain. Further, they too must be friends of one another, if they are all to spend their days together; and it is a hard business for this condition to be fulfilled with a large number. It is found difficult, too, to rejoice and to grieve in an intimate way with many people, for it may likely happen that one has at once to be happy with one friend and to mourn with another. Presumably, then, it is well not to seek to have as many friends as possible, but as many as are enough for the purpose of living together; for it would seem actually impossible to be a great friend to many people. This is why one cannot love several people; love is ideally a sort of excess of friendship, and that can only be felt towards one person; therefore great friendship too can only be felt towards a few people. This seems to be confirmed in practice; for we do not find many people who are friends in the comradely way of friendship, and the famous friendships of this sort are always between two people. Those who have many friends and mix intimately with them all are thought to be no one's friend, except in the way proper to fellow-citizens, and such people are also called obsequious. In the way proper to fellow-citizens, indeed, it is possible to be the friend of many and yet not be obsequious but a genuinely good man; but one cannot have with many people the friendship based on virtue and on the character of our friends themselves, and we must be content if we find even a few such."
"For friendship is a partnership, and as a man is to himself, so is he to his friend; now in his own case the consciousness of his being is desirable, and so therefore is the consciousness of his friend's being, and the activity of this consciousness is produced when they live together, so that it is natural that they aim at this. And whatever existence means for each class of men, whatever it is for whose sake they value life, in that they wish to occupy themselves with their friends; and so some drink together, others dice together, others join in athletic exercises and hunting, or in the study of philosophy, each class spending their days together in whatever they love most in life; for since they wish to live with their friends, they do and share in those things which give them the sense of living together."