Stick to whatever suits you and go with your gut feeling. Guys often stick to their masculine chest and calves, while your final decision and outcome will vary and depend on your preference and your character. Most women like to stick to their collarbone or wrist, while some also fancy placing this saying over their back. We are all going to die (memento mori – an object kept as a reminder of the inevitability of death, such as a skull.) It can be a positive meaning since it will make you relate and embrace your life a lot more. It is used to describe your life phrase and path on a daily, while also pointing us in the right direction. Do you know what it means, and is there a significant meaning that you can link and connect with this saying? Keep on reading as we talk about some of the coolest concepts for both men and women down below! FAQ 1. We will start in the next episode by looking at Horace, the poet of Carpe Diem.How good is your Latin? Or more so importantly, are you eager to find one tattoo that has a bold and meaningful saying? Oftentimes men and women like to go for the phrase “Memento Mori”. We exhort you to embark on this journey with us. The two formulas have evolved and taken different perspectives (especially religions will have a strong impact) but will remain at the foundation of lyrics and philosophy until modern times. The future is the great excluded, as the future is the tense that abolishes the limit, it is virtual, it is illusion. It is lack of boundaries. Both formulas eventually represent the present moment as the only, real, positive time of our existence. The classic perspective constantly goes back to the present moment, and to human existence. In both cases, though, the future emerges as the real evil: it is not the certainty of death that makes the future vain, but rather it is the future itself that one needs to beware. The second, rooted in the future, implies a limit towards the present and can evoke either the vanity of life or the vanity of death.Ĭlassic poetry continuously blends these two formulas into a continuum. The first, is rooted in the present and implies a limit towards the future it can imply either the full enjoyment of the present moment, or its abdication. Throughout literature, they both become concise yet deep answers in the battle with the evilness of Time: they are deep because apparently contradictory and based on the theory of limit. They deal with limits, where memento mori in particular deals with the absolute limit itself. The two formulas contain the extremes of things, light and darkness, life and death. The first imperative ( carpe diem) is easier to grasp the second one, differently from what one could expect, exhorts us to “ think about death”, not to not-think about it. The two formulas are imperatives, implying the absolute truth Latin philosophers attached to them. These are the fundamental places of classic poetry. Latin philosophers condensed their interpretation of life and death in two famous formulas: Carpe Diem, that we can translate as “ seize the moment” and Memento Mori, or “ remember that you have to die". The very idea of time is in fact linked to humanity, inseparable, even unimaginable without it. To be able to represent Time, one needs to look into life and death, the great limits of time itself – or at least of the human time. We will then move across time, space, and disciplines to build our own interpretation of time and formulate an answer to Augustine’s question. In the following episodes, we will explore the notion of time according to ancient Latin and Greek wisdom. If I need to explain it, I don’t know anymore”įor now, we will follow Augustine’s suggestion: we will not ask ourselves what time is, but rather we will embark on a journey to explore the interpretations of time provided by great thinkers. “What is time? If no one asks me, I know. To highlight the complexity of the topic is the great question (and answer) by Augustine in Confessions: Life itself is confined within time, and with Time life engages its most dramatic battle. Time is one of the oldest and most recurring topics in literature across civilizations.Īs such, the topic is as vast as human thinking.
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