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Scheduled as Daily Quote: 1907-05-28
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It is said that there is no spiritual principle, everything starts from the body. If people live for the body, deal only with the body, never fight with it, then how can they think otherwise? The child lives for the body, but does not explain, does not justify it. But the trouble is when the adult continues to live like a child and finds clever philosophical justifications for it. Only he who wrestled with the body knows what the body is, knows what was fighting with it and what is more powerful than it.

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It is said that there is no spiritual principle, everything starts from the body. If people live for the body, deal only with the body, never fight with it, then how can they think otherwise? The child lives for the body, but does not explain, does not justify it. But the trouble is when the adult continues to live like a child and finds clever philosophical justifications for it. Only he who wrestled with the body knows what the body is, knows what was fighting with it and what is more powerful than it.

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Romanian

"Se spune că nu există principiu spiritual, totul pornește de la trup. Dacă oamenii trăiesc pentru trup, se ocupa numai de trup, niciodată nu se lupta cu el, atunci cum să gândească altfel? Copilul trăiește pentru trup, dar nu explică, nu justifică asta. Însă necazul e cand adultul continuă să trăiască la fel ca un copil și găsește pentru asta justificări filozofice iscusite. Numai cel care se lupta cu trupul știe ce e trupul, știe ce se lupta cu el și ce e mai putemic decât el."

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