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Lionel Messi
Lionel Messi
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And like the oscillations of the waves, the whole succession of events here below, made up, as they are, of variations in balance mutually compensated—birth and destructions, waxings and wanings—render one keenly alive to the invisible presence of a plexus of limits without substance and yet harder than any diamond. That is why things are beautiful in their vicissitudes, although they allow one to perceive a pitiless necessity. Pitiless, yes; but which is not force, which is sovereign ruler over all force. But the thought which really enraptured the ancients was this: what makes the blind forces of matter obedient is not another, stronger force; it is love. They believed that matter was obedient to eternal Wisdom by virtue of the love which causes it to consent to this obedience.

(Page 282).

beauty is the cut of limitation

Brute force is not sovereign in this world. It is by nature blind and indeterminate. What is sovereign in this world is determinateness, limit. Eternal Wisdom imprisons this universe in a network, a web of determinations. The universe accepts passively. The brute force of matter, which appears to us sovereign, is nothing else in reality but perfect obedience.

How should blind force be able to produce circles?

(Page 279). Simone Weil, The Need for Roots

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“our human and earthly limits, properly understood, are not confinements, but rather inducements to formal elaboration and elegance, to fullness of relationship and meaning. Perhaps our most serious cultural loss in recent centuries is the knowledge that some things, though limited, can be inexhaustible.” [2]

Wendell Berry

“an art does not propose to enlarge itself by limitless extension, but rather to enrich itself within bounds that are accepted ... It is the artists who have dealt with the problem of limits. A painting, however large, must finally be bounded by a frame or a wall. A composer or playwright must reckon, at a minimum, with the capacity of an audience to sit still and pay attention. A story, once begun, must end somewhere within the limits of the writer’s and the reader’s memory…… Within these limits’ artists achieve elaborations of pattern, of sustaining relationships of parts with one another and with the whole, that may be astonishingly complex. Probably most of us can name a painting, a piece of music, a poem or play or story that still grows in meaning and remains fresh after many years of familiarity.

Wendell Berry
Rainer Maria Rilke, Rilke’s Book of Hours: Love Poems to God
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