Time

A good performance

Like a human life

Is a temporary affair

~ A process in time ~

It's good as a whole through being good in its parts

and through their good order to one another
It cannot be called good as a whole

until it is finished

During the process all we can say of it

if we speak precisely

is that it is becoming good

The same is true of a whole human life

Just as the whole performance never exists at any one time

but is a process of becoming.

So, a human life is also a performance

in time and also a process of becoming

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As the goodness that attaches to the performance

As a whole that does not attach to any of its part

The goodness of a human life as a whole belongs to its alone

Not to any of its parts of phrases

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Quotation by

Mortimer J. Adler