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| �Each human being has infinite reality, and it is pride and arrogance in a person not to honor his fellow man.� [1848]
�...each one in despairing has two wills, one that he fruitlessly tries wholly to follow and one that he fruitlessly tries wholly to avoid.� (Purity of Heart) �Each person takes his revenge on the world. Mine consists in carrying my grief and anguish deeply embedded within myself, while my laughter entertains all. If I see somebody suffer I sympathize with him, console him to the best of my ability, and listen to him quietly when he assures me that I am fortunate. If I can keep this up to the day of my death I shall have had my revenge.� [1837] �Equality hallows this meaning of life; there is peace in understanding it, salvation in appropriating it, love in the struggle for it, solidarity in the victory, self-concern in its concern, purest human love in the self-concern because it requires of itself what it loves in all!--so I have heard. A signature is not really necessary. It is infinitely inconsequential who has said it.� (...and ...of course... he signed this... in 1846) �Error's greatest triumph is to acquire an impersonal medium of communication and then anonymity.� (1848) �Especially important is it for the person who in this way becomes clear about his destiny, not only because of the peace of mind that follows upon the preceding storm, but also because one has life in an entirely different sense from before.� (1 June 1835) �Even if someone offered me sixteen rixdollars I would not take it upon myself to explain the enigma of life. And why should I? If life is a riddle, the one who made it up will probably show up in the end and provide the solution, once he feels there's no longer any great interest in guessing.� ("Remark By a Humorous Individual", 1845) � �Even if somebody offered me 10 rixdollars I would not take it upon myself to explain the enigma of life. And, anyway, why should I? If life is an enigma, a puzzle, he who has posed it probably will come forth in the end and offer the solution when he feels that nobody is too eager to make a guess any longer. I have not invented the puzzle, but in �The Liberal,� �The Freischutz� as well as other papers that feature puzzles, the solution follows in the next issue. The distinction of being mentioned in the paper as the person who had solved the puzzle on the same day that the rest of us learn the solution is a matter of indifference to me.� � ["Remark by a Humorous Individual", 1845] �Even if the system politely assigned me a guest-room in the attic so I could come along all the same, I'd still prefer to be a thinker who is like a bird on a twig.� (1845) �Eventually everything is turned upside down. People no longer write for someone to learn something. Perish the thought, what disrespect! the reading public knows everything already. It isn't the reader that needs the author (as the patient the doctor); no, it's the author who needs the reader.� (1846) |
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