“A person has a body that is not absolute being because it has no stability in itself.”
About This Quote
A cynical perspective from Augustine; his longing for stability and absoluteness cuts off his sense of this world. In Latin: "Quod corpus habet, non est idipsum; quia non in se stat."
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