Forgetting (n.) protects the human being from the blinding light of absolute historical memory and is an attribute boldly chosen by the philosopher in order to avoid falling into the trap of 'historical knowledge'.
Forgetting (n.) is a limitation that protects the human being from the blinding light of absolute historical memory.
Forgetting (n.) is an active and in the strictest sense positive faculty of repression.
Forgetting (n.) is an attribute boldly chosen by the philosopher in order to avoid falling into the trap of 'historical knowledge'.
Forgetting (n.) is heavy and make himself light.
Forgetting (n.) is like a a doorkeeper, a preserver of psychic order, repose and etiquette without which there could be no present.
Forgetting (n.) is no mere inertia as we superficially imagine... it is rather an active and in the strictest sense positive faculty of repression that is responsible for the fact that that which we experience enters our consciousness as little while we are digesting it as does the thousandfold process involved in physical nourishment so-called 'incorporation'.
Forgetting (n.) is a blessing, for those who forget surmount even their mistakes.
Forgetting (n.) is essential to action of any kind, as darkness as well as light is essential to everything organic; one can live almost without memory, but not at all without forgetting.
Forgetting (n.) is the death of knowledge — which is why science hates it, and why science hates art and religion.
Forgetting (n.) has never been proved to exist: all we know is that recollection is not in our power, and we set the word 'forgetting' into that gap as if it were one more faculty.
Forgetting (n.) is a sign of strength: Mirabeau could not forgive insults simply because he forgot them.
Forgetting (n.) is no mere inertia but an active, positive faculty — a doorkeeper of the psyche, without which there could be no happiness, no hope, no pride, no present.