You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The old man, of whom we know how he has become what he is, is more of an individual than the young man; for it is only in the course of an eventful life that men are differentiated into full individuality.
In the physical world, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is a wanted man.
Julian Assange is self-consciously an individual. He thinks in his own way, primarily as a physicist, having studied pure maths and physics at university in Australia where he grew up.
Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name.
Not a single man on earth knows from his own experience the how and where of his birth, only from tradition, which is often very uncertain.
I am not the first man who wanted to make changes in his life at 60 and I won't be the last. It is just that others can do it with anonymity.
Man must be associated with his fellows.
You get older and you see yourself and say, 'God, he's old, who's that?'
Somewhere, everywhere, now hidden, now apparent in what ever is written down, is the form of a human being. If we seek to know him, are we idly occupied?
Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble.
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