There are things than cannot ever occur with any precision. They are too big and too magnificent to be contained in mere facts. They are merely trying to occur, they are checking whether the ground of reality can carry them. And they quickly withdraw, fearing to loose their integrity in the frailty of realization.
Interpretation
This quote reflects on the limitations of capturing the essence of grand ideas or experiences with simple facts.
Bruno Schulz suggests that some concepts or occurrences are so profound and expansive that they transcend the ability of mere facts to encapsulate them. These magnificent ideas or realities are in a state of tentative existence, testing whether the tangible world can support their full manifestation, but they often retreat, concerned that embodiment might diminish their inherent integrity.
In practice
In a discussion about the nature of art and its ineffable qualities.
Animals! the object of insatiable interest, examples of the riddle of life, created, as it were, to reveal the human being to man himself, displaying his richness and complexity in a thousand kaleidoscopic possibilities, each of them brought to some curious end, to some characteristic exuberance.
An event may be small and insignificant in its origin , and yet, when drawn close to one’s eye, it may open in its center an infinite and radiant perspective because a higher order of being is trying to express itself in it and irradiates it violently.
As we manipulate everyday words, we forget that they are fragments of ancient and eternal stories, that we are building our houses with broken pieces of sculptures and ruined statues of gods as the barbarians did.
The days hardened with cold and boredom like last year's loaves of bread. One began to cut them with blunt knives without appetite, with a lazy indifference.
The ego doesn't know that the source of all energy is within you, so it seeks it outside.
The greatest religion is to be true to your own nature. Have faith in yourselves.
About Superman and Batman: the former is how America views itself, the latter, darker character is how the rest of the world views America.
No man deserves to be praised for his goodness, who has it not in his power to be wicked. Goodness without that power is generally nothing more than sloth, or an impotence of will.
A Christian man is on his guard with respect to those who philosophize according to the elements of this world, not according to God, by Whom the world itself was made; for he is warned by the precept of the apostle and faithfully hears what has been said, 'Beware that no one deceive you through philosophy and vain deceit, according to the elements of the world'
Freedom can be destroyed, not just by its retraction, but also by its abuse.
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