The reality of life is not sensation but activity — I mean activity both in thought and in action. People who live by sensations are parasites, both materially and morally, in relation to those who work and create… who do not seek sensations [but] experience in fact much livelier, profounder, less artificial and truer ones than those who seek them.
[…]The cultivation of sensations… leads one to consider the people one loves as mere occasions of joy or suffering and to forget completely that they exist in their own right. One lives among phantoms, dreaming instead of living.
Author: Simone Weil
Source: The Marginalian (Brain Pickings)
Subjects: Life & Society, Personal Improvement
Source: The Marginalian (Brain Pickings)
Subjects: Life & Society, Personal Improvement
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