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“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.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

“I thought that it was strange to assume that it was abnormal for anyone to be forever asking questions about the nature of the universe, about what the human condition really was, my condition, what I was doing here, if there was really something to do. It seemed to me, on the contrary, that it was abnormal for people NOT to think about it, for them to allow themselves to live, as it were, unconsciously. Perhaps it's because everyone, all the others, are convinced in some unformulated, irrational way that one day everything will be made clear. Perhaps there will be a morning of grace for humanity. Perhaps there will be a morning of grace for me.”
― Eugène Ionesco, The Hermit

“Ah, where in the world have there been greater follies than with the pitiful? And what in the world hath caused more suffering than the follies of the pitiful?
Woe unto all loving ones who have not an elevation which is above their pity!
Thus spake the devil unto me, once on a time: "Even God hath his hell: it is his love for man." And lately, did I hear him say these words: "God is dead: of his pity for man hath God died.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

“Ouders nemen niet zomaar de primaire verantwoordelijkheid over wat hun kinderen met internet doen; sommigen schuiven die door naar de school. Maar de school hoort een tweederangsrol te spelen in de opvoeding van kinderen, geen eersterangsrol. Anderzijds is het dan weer zo dat kinderen zeker via het onderwijs moeten worden voorbereid op de taak die hen te wachten staat: ze zullen moeten de wereld maken. Daar is filosofische reflectie voor nodig, en dus zou filosofie een verplicht onderdeel moeten zijn van het lessenrooster in een of enkele jaren van het middelbaar onderwijs.”
― Dirk De Wachter