Thursday, October 14, 2010
Full Speed Ahead?
Nicolás Gómez Dávila (1913-1994), Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección (Bogotá: Villegas Editores, 2001), p. 331 (tr. by Stephen at Don Colacho's Aphorisms):
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Swimming against the current is not idiotic if the waters are racing toward a waterfall.C.S. Lewis (1898-1963), Mere Christianity, chapter 5:
Nadar contra la corriente no es necedad si las aguas corren hacia cataratas.
We all want progress. But progress means getting nearer to the place you want to be. And if you have taken a wrong turning, then to go forward does not get you any nearer. If you are on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; and in that case the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive man.
