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“Man as scientist has come to know a great deal, but as human being knows and feel intuitively love and ambition, poetry and music. The heart-and-mind reaches deeper than the power of reason alone.”
― From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life, 1500 to the Present
― From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life, 1500 to the Present
“The one drawback to print is that the uniform finality of black on white leads the innocent to believe that every word so enshrined is true. And when these truths diverge from book to book (for the incentive to write and publish is also increased), the intellectual life is changed. From being more or less a duel, it becomes a free-for-all. The scrimmage makes for a blur of ideas, now accepted as a constant and fondly believed to be, like the free market, the ideal method for sifting truth.”
― From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life, 1500 to the Present
― From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life, 1500 to the Present
“Time, place and nationality have the power to confer or withhold renown.”
― From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life, 1500 to the Present
― From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life, 1500 to the Present
“In Nietzsche, Reitzel discovered a thinker who blended a merciless realism about the unholy authority of institutionalized religion with the romantic prophecy of a future liberated selfhood.”
― American Nietzsche: A History of an Icon and His Ideas
― American Nietzsche: A History of an Icon and His Ideas
“The obvious part is that the machine makes us its captive servants - by its rhythm, by its convenience, by the cost of stopping it or the drawbacks of not using it. As captives we come to resemble it in our pace, rigidity and uniform expectations. But there is in mechanism a subtler influence. The machine is an agent of abstraction. It is itself an abstraction in that it does one particular task (or at most two or three) and yields identical products. There is no fringe or fancy, no happy error or sudden innovation as in the handworker's performance. That is why machine-made things rarely draw our glance more than the few times when they are new and handy. They induce no subsequent reverie, no speculation, and no love, The robot is a repulsive caricature of Man. When the domestic or public landscape is filled with objects deprived of any aura, it is as if the world of living things had been reduced by abstraction to something emphatically not alive.”
― From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life, 1500 to the Present
― From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life, 1500 to the Present
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