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| �...a public is a kind of gigantic something, an abstract and deserted void which is everything and nothing.� (The Present Age)
�A public is everything and nothing, the most dangerous of all powers and the most insignificant: one can speak to a whole nation in the name of the public and still the public will be less than a single real man, however unimportant.� (The Present Age) �A title can never be got rid of except by the commission of some crime which draws down on you a public whipping; even then you are not certain, for you may have it restored to you by royal pardon.� (Either/Or, VOL. I: THE ROTATION METHOD) �A tyrant is still just one. Consequently you can arrange to avoid him, if you like, to live far away from him, etc. But where, under a people�s government, am I to escape the tyrant? Everyone is in a sense the tyrant! all he needs is to get hold of a mob, a majority.� �Abstract, grammatical punctuation just isn't good enough when it comes to rhetorical writing, particularly when spiced with irony, epigram, subtlety and, in the ideal sense, malice, etc.� ("Something About My Punctuation", 1847) �Again there is new life in Amager Square and the colorful, flowery coverlet of folk-life is spread over it. Last night at midnight an individual in shabby clothes was seized because, as the night-watchman said, he had heaped gross abuse on some persons, but the night-watchman who should report such things had not seen it, and the culprit was beaten�unjustly�it is believed�and no one made a complaint�no one knows anything about it. Today life goes on as usual�and this is merely Amager Square�what is that compared to Denmark, Europe, the world?� [1837] �Ah, but showing that they don't care about me, or caring that I should know they don't care, is still dependence. It will work out beautifully provided one has sufficient ataraxia. People show me respect precisely by showing me that they do not respect me.� (1847) �Alas, there are many who are not engaged and yet have a lover; many who are engaged, and who still do not have one....� (Either/Or, VOL. I: DIARY OF THE SEDUCER) �All in all, one must say that modern philosophy, even in its most grandiose form, is still really just an introduction to making philosophizing possible.� (5 July 1840) |
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