It seems absurd, and yet it is the pure truth, that, since everything real is nothing, the only reality and the only substance in the world consists of illusions
~ Leopardi
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Great quote.
I'm unfamiliar with Giacomo #Leopardi. Thank you for alerting me to him.
#Ultrafilosofia - greatly loving knowledge?? He apparently only used this word once. Perhaps meaning reconciliation of nature & thought??
All life lives in illusion & suffers & dies in it.
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"Leopardi argues that we must pursue an “ultrafilosofia” that accepts the limits of analytic reason and knits it together with the synthesizing power of imagination."
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It's pretty much the same thing the ancient Greeks said 2,500 years ago:
"Nothing exists except atoms and empty space, everything else is opinion"
~ Democritus
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