Tag: idleness

  • Bundle of disparate pieces

    “This bundle of so many disparate pieces is being composed in this manner: I set my hand to it only when pressed by too unnerving an idleness, and nowhere but at home.” II.31 Of the resemblance of children to fathers (p.696)

  • Souls stirred and set in motion

    “So it seems that the soul, once stirred and set in motion, is lost in itself unless we give it something to grasp; and we must always give it an object to aim and act on…. the loving part that is in us, lacking a legitimate object, rather than remain idle, thus forges itself a…

  • Some other tags

    This is a post to hold some other tags that will be useful later.