“Those who commend work. - In the glorification of 'work', in the unwearied talk of the 'blessing of work', I see the same covert idea as in the praise of useful impersonal actions: that of fear of everything individual. Fundamentally, one now feels at the sight of work - one always means by work that hard industriousness from early till late - that such work is the best policeman, that it keeps everyone in bounds and can mightily hinder the development of reason, covetousness, desire for independence. For it uses up an extraordinary amount of nervous energy, which is thus denied to reflection, brooding, dreaming, worrying, loving, hating; it sets a small goal always in sight and guarantees easy and regular satisfactions. Thus a society in which there is continual hard work will have more security: and security is now worshipped as the supreme divinity. - And now! Horror! Precisely the 'worker' has become dangerous! The place is swarming with 'dangerous individuals'! And behind them the danger of dangers - the individual!”
― Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality
― Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality
“A state, is called the coldest of all cold monsters. Coldly lieth it also; and this lie creepeth from its mouth: "I, the state, am the people."
It is a lie! Creators were they who created peoples, and hung a faith and a love over them: thus they served life.
Destroyers, are they who lay snares for many, and call it the state: they hang a sword and a hundred cravings over them.
Where there is still a people, there the state is not understood, but hated as the evil eye, and as sin against laws and customs.”
― Thus Spoke Zarathustra
It is a lie! Creators were they who created peoples, and hung a faith and a love over them: thus they served life.
Destroyers, are they who lay snares for many, and call it the state: they hang a sword and a hundred cravings over them.
Where there is still a people, there the state is not understood, but hated as the evil eye, and as sin against laws and customs.”
― Thus Spoke Zarathustra
“ألا ترى أنّ الغاية النهائيّة للّغة الجديدة هي التضييق من آفاق التفكير؟ بحيث تصبح جريمة الفكر في نهاية المطاف جرماً مستحيل الوقوع من الناحية النظريّة، وذلك لأنّه لن توجد كلمات يمكن للمرء من خلالها أن يرتكب هذه الجريمة. فكل مفهوم يحتاج إليه الناس سيتم التعبير عنه بكلمة واحدة محددة المعنى وغير قابلة للتأويل، أما معانيها الفرعيّة فسيتم طمسها حتى تصبح طي النسيان (...) فالكلمات تتناقص عاماً بعد عام، كما يتضاءل مدى الوعي والإدراك شيئاً فشيئاً (...) ستبلغ الثورة أوجّها حينما تكتمل اللّغة ويتم إتقانها (...) مع حلول عام 2050 أو ربّما قبل ذلك، سوف تكون المعرفة الحقيقيّة باللّغة القديمة قد تلاشت، وسيكون كل التراث الأدبي قد اندثر. (...) إنّ المناخ الفكريّ سيكون كلّه قد تغيّر. وفي الحقيقة لن يكون هنالك تفكير على النحو الذي نفهمه الآن، فالولاء يعني انعدام التفكير، بل انعدام الحاجة إلى التفكير. الولاء هو عدم الوعي”
― 1984
― 1984
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