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There is, of course, a large element of egotism in pessimism; the world is not good enough for us, and we turn up our philosophic noses to it. But this is to forget Spinoza’s lesson, that our terms of moral censure and approbation are merely human judgments, mostly irrelevant when applied to the cosmos as a whole. Perhaps our supercilious disgust with existence if covered for secret disgust with ourselves we have botched and bungled our lives and we cast the blame upon the “environment”, or the “world”, which have no tongues to utter a defense. The mature man accepts the natural limitations of life; he does not expect Providence to be prejudiced in his favour; he does not ask for loaded dice with which to play the game of life. He knows, withCarlyle, that there is no sense in vilifying the sun because it will not light our cigars. If we are clever enough to help it, the sun will do even that; and this was vast neutral cosmos may turn out to be a pleasant place enough if we bring a little sunshine of our own to help it out. In truth the world is neither with us nor against us; it is but raw material of our hands, and can be heaven or hell according to what we are.

~ Will Durant

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Qué tiempos aquellos cuando escribíamos en máquinas y rectificábamos con tipes

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