Reflections

Regarding our own trunk

European university must yield to Latin American university. Latin America’s history, from the Incas until now, should be taught in detail, even if that of Greek’s archons is not taught.  Our Greece is preferable to the Greece that it is not ours. It is more necessary to us. National politicians must replace exotic politicians. The world should be engrafted into our Republics; but the trunk must be that of our Republics

José Martí

 

Regarding “progress”

In contemporary dreams, the image of “progress” seems to have been aloof from the notion of shared improvements to start signifying individual survival.

Zygmunt Bauman

 

Regarding three sinuous lifelines

Three sinuous lifelines, lost into infinity, constantly close and divergent: what a man has believed he was, what he wanted to be, and what he was.

Marguerite Yourcenar