Read it and pass it on (1995)
I don't know if I'll know how to explain it well. More than a reason is an instinct. It is an impulse, which makes you want to learn, to know with anger. I think that without this point of irritation, of intransigence, of hate, there is no learning.
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Writing (1993)
If we knew something about what we were going to write, before we did it, before writing, we would never write. It would not be worth it. To write is to try to know what one would write if one wrote - one knows it only after - before, it is the most dangerous question that one can ask oneself. But it's the most common too. The writing happens like the wind, it's naked, it's ink, it's written and it goes like nothing else in life, nothing more, except it, the life.
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The Usefulness of the Useless. [2013]
If the usefulness of the useless, the uselessness of the useful, is not understood, art is not understood. [Eugène Ionesco]
The professor of Italian Literature Nuccio Ordine collects, orders and comments on his interesting book "The usefulness of the useless. Manifesto "a set of texts by various thinkers about the usefulness of all those knowledge whose essential value is, precisely, to be unconnected to any utilitarian purpose. A very interesting book.
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Grámatica del arte (1993)
The compound of two left halves of a face can be curious, but not exciting. The symmetry could be described as axial equilibrium, but the most stimulating balance is the asymmetric one. That is, the balance of a kilo of feathers and a kilo of lead. The volume differs, but the weighing scales shows balance.
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Understanding a Photograph (1972)
Photographs bear witness to a human choice being exercised in a given situation. A photograph is a result of the photographer's decision that it is worth recording that this particular event or this particular object has been seen. If everything there existed were continually being photographed, every photograph would become meaningless.
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¿Para que servimos los filósofos? (2012)
Philosophy means "love for knowledge". "Knowing by knowing". A knowledge that is not for this or that, but a knowledge that is merely "knowing by knowing", "knowing disinterested" and, therefore, knowing "of all" and "of no one", know "of any other". Therefore, the first answer to our question, what is the purpose of philosophy ?, is that for nothing. And precisely for this reason, from Socrates to Plato, it was thought that it served to govern.
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