13 Tuesday Oct 2015
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“The life of truth in the realm of the spirit does not remove man from his world, but makes him effective for serving his historical present”.
Karl Jaspers, Making Tradition Our Own
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29 Tuesday Sep 2015
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“Essential humanity is reduced to the general; to vitality as a functional corporeality, to the triviality of enjoyment. The divorce of labour from pleasure deprives life of its possible gravity: public affairs become mere entertainment; private affairs, the alternation of stimulation and fatigue, and a craving for novelty whose inexhaustible current flows swiftly into the waters of oblivion. There is no continuity, only pastime.
“Positivism likewise encourages an unceasing activity of the impulses common to us all: an enthusiasm for the numberless and the vast, for the creations of modern technique, for huge crowds; sensational admiration for the achievements, fortunes, and abilities of outstanding individuals; the complication and brutalisation of the erotic; gambling, adventurousness, and even the hazarding of one’s life. Lottery tickets are sold by the million; crossword puzzles become the chief occupation of people’s leisure. This positive gratification of the mind without personal participation or effort promotes efficiency for the daily round, fatigue and recreation being regularised”.
Karl Jaspers, Man in the Modern Age
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06 Sunday Sep 2015
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“Pulling himself together on the border-line of destruction, the independent human being may arise, one who will take matters into his own hands and will enjoy true being”.
Karl Jaspers, Man in the Modern Age
08 Saturday Aug 2015
Posted in capitalism, civilization
“One of the most notable characteristics of our day is a progressive and irremediable loss of substance… The upshot is parade instead of true being, multiplicity instead of unity, garrulousness instead of the imparting of real knowledge, experience instead of existence – interminable mimicry”.
Karl Jaspers, Man in the Modern Age
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25 Monday May 2015
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“One who truly has courage is one who, inspired by an anxious feeling of the possible, reaches out for the knowledge that he alone who aims at the impossible can attain the possible”.
Karl Jaspers, Man in the Modern Age
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