Enamorarse del ideal

"Platón explica que las cosas de este mundo sólo pueden ser reflejo y participación de lo ideal. Cuando entrevemos lo ideal, nos enamoramos y tendemos a elevarnos al mundo de las ideas. Es el Eros platónico, que, lejos del significado fisiológico que hoy puede tener, significa el amor ideal y puro, que hace crecer las alas del alma y la enciende en deseos de volar hacia el ideal de belleza y perfección."
Lorda, Humanismo, p. 78

Archive stores and restores testimonies and information

"The archive is pure potential, a possible source of information, nothing more. It is dependent on others to actualize and realize this potential, to transform it from the status of virtual information to that of palpable objects that can be transmitted and received by future individuals who, in witnessing the witnesses, will themselves learn and know and remember. The archive, then, has a double function: to store testimonies as virtual information and to restore them as communicated and re-embodied knowledge".

Assmann, Aleida, 'History, Memory, and the Genre of Testimony', Poetics today 27:2 (Summer 2006), p.271.