Some people have great memory and memorization, we've all heard of "Photographic Memory" and of highly trained spies being able to glance at something and then recreate it from memory much later.
So, memory, like the body, is a muscle that can be trained and strengthened.
In an attempt to improve my memory, I have decided to being memorizing various things as they strike my interest. For example, my first.
You must intoxicate yourself, if you are a modern man, in order to forget the oppressive burden of time.
I didn't see it as important to remember who originally said that, but I believe it came out of the Industrial revolution. How much more true now?
Next, my second:
The wise man should seek to sever himself, through long training, from all dependence on human society or material goods, until he has risen to a level of independence comparable to the god's themselves.
When I read that, it very well verbalized something I feel very deeply, especially more recently. It relates to the effects of urbanism, dehumanization, isolation, and urbanization, and some other things that I will write more on later, I think.
