| Why is it slavery to be subordinated to caprice? The ultimate
reason is in the relation between the soul and time.
Whoever is subdued to the arbitrary is suspended on the thread of time;
he is obliged to wait (the most humuliating state!...) for what the next
moment will bring; and to accept whatever the present moment has brought.
He has no control over his passing moments; for him, the present is not
a lever by which he can act upon the future.
Simone Weil: First and Last Notebooks, p.20 |