But I have never believed the people when they talked about great men – and I held to my belief that [he] was an inverse cripple, who had too little of everything and too much of one thing.
Truly, my friends, I walk among men as among the fragments and limbs of men!
The terrible thing to my eye is to find men shattered in pieces and scattered as if over a battle-field of slaughter.
And when my eye flees from the present to the past, it always discovers the same thing: fragments and limbs and dreadful chances – but no men!
- Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Truly, my friends, I walk among men as among the fragments and limbs of men!
The terrible thing to my eye is to find men shattered in pieces and scattered as if over a battle-field of slaughter.
And when my eye flees from the present to the past, it always discovers the same thing: fragments and limbs and dreadful chances – but no men!
- Thus Spoke Zarathustra
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But I have never believed the people when they talked about great men – and I held to my belief that [he] was an inverse cripple, who had too little of everything and too much of one thing. Truly, my friends, I walk among men as among the fragments and limbs…
لكنّني لم أُصَدِّق الناسَ أبدًا عندما تحدّثوا عن الرجال العظماء – وتمسّكتُ بإيماني بأنّ [هذا الرجلَ العظيم] كانَ ذا عاهةٍ معكوسة، عِندَه القليلُ من كلّ شي والكثيرُ من شيءٍ واحد.
إنّني أَصدُقُكم القول، يا رِفاقي، إذ أرى نفسي أمشي بين الرجال كأنّني بينَ أشلاءِ وأطرافٍ متناثرة.
يؤلمُني أنْ أرى رجالًا مُبَعثَرين لأشلاءٍ ومتناثرين كأنّها ساحةُ معركةٍ ومجزرةٌ دامية.
وعندما مِن الحاضرِ فَرّت عيني إلى الماضي، رأت المشهدَ ذاتَه: شظايا وأطرافًا وصُدَفًا مروّعة – ولكن لا رجال!
إنّني أَصدُقُكم القول، يا رِفاقي، إذ أرى نفسي أمشي بين الرجال كأنّني بينَ أشلاءِ وأطرافٍ متناثرة.
يؤلمُني أنْ أرى رجالًا مُبَعثَرين لأشلاءٍ ومتناثرين كأنّها ساحةُ معركةٍ ومجزرةٌ دامية.
وعندما مِن الحاضرِ فَرّت عيني إلى الماضي، رأت المشهدَ ذاتَه: شظايا وأطرافًا وصُدَفًا مروّعة – ولكن لا رجال!
Dr. Reeve would at times ask Wittgenstein about philosophy, but Wittgenstein characteristically discouraged his interest in the subject. He emphasized to Reeve that, unlike his own subject of medicine, philosophy was absolutely useless, and that unless you were compelled to do it, there was no point in pursuing it. ‘You do decent work in medicine’, he told Reeve; ‘be content with that.’ ‘In any case’, he would add mischievously, ‘you’re too stupid.’
It is interesting, however, that forty years later Reeve should say that he had been influenced in his thinking by Wittgenstein in two important ways: first, to keep in mind that things are as they are; and secondly, to seek illuminating comparisons to get an understanding of how they are. Both these ideas are central to Wittgenstein’s later philosophy.
- The Duty Of Genius (a biography of Ludwig Wittgenstein)
It is interesting, however, that forty years later Reeve should say that he had been influenced in his thinking by Wittgenstein in two important ways: first, to keep in mind that things are as they are; and secondly, to seek illuminating comparisons to get an understanding of how they are. Both these ideas are central to Wittgenstein’s later philosophy.
- The Duty Of Genius (a biography of Ludwig Wittgenstein)
يشهد الله
This place is nothing short of a conspiracy of mediocrity, stupidity, and bureaucracy woven together in one institution.
This place is nothing short of a conspiracy of mediocrity, stupidity, and bureaucracy woven together in one institution.