Intellect and morality. – One has to have a good memory if one is to keep a promise. One has to have a powerful imagination if one is to feel sympathy. So closely is morality tied to the quality of the intellect.
Against the trusting. – People who give us their complete trust believe they have acquired a right to ours. This is a false conclusion; gifts procure no rights.
What one can promise. – One can promise actions but not feelings; for the latter are involuntary. He who promises someone he will always love him or always hate him or always be faithful to him, promises something that does not reside in his power.
One, certainly very high level of culture has been attained when a man emerges from superstitious and religious concepts and fears and no longer believes in angels, for example, or in original sin, and has ceased to speak of the salvation of souls. Then, however, he needs to take a retrograde step: he has to grasp the historical justification that resides in such ideas, likewise the psychological; he has to recognize that they have been most responsible for the advancement of mankind and that without such a retrograde step he will deprive himself of the best that mankind has hitherto produced . . . at the end of the track, it is necessary to turn the corner.
— Human All Too Human
— Human All Too Human
Forwarded from Sympósion
When one can't talk; feels there are no ears to listen, one writes. Writing is an act of last resort, a rebellion against isolation, a schizophrenic gesture where one's self converses with itself.
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