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| �As the jaundiced see everything as yellow, so such a man discovers, as he sinks deeper and deeper, an increasing manifold of sin about him. His eye is alert and trained, not for the understanding of truth, hence for untruth; consequently his sight is prejudiced more and more so that, increasingly defiled, he sees evil in everything, impurity even in what is purest--and this sight (Oh terrible thought!) is still to him a kind of consolation, for it is important to him to discover as boundless a multitude as possible.� (Works of Love)
�As the one who has himself become unhappy and, if he loves human beings, wants precisely to help others who are capable of realizing happiness, that is how I have understood my task.� ("How I Have Understood Myself in the Whole Author Activity", 1846) �As with someone without a happy home who goes out as much as possible and would rather be rid of it, my melancholy has kept me outside myself while I discovered and poetically experienced a whole world of the imagination.� (1847) �At the hour of death most people choose the right thing.� �Basically, I am too ideally brought up in this respect also: I go about with the idiotic thought that everything should be done to make people aware, with the thought that every individual person is a tremendous thing, that not a single one, let alone a thousand, should be wasted.� (1848) �Because the consciousness of sin within him grants him no peace, the pain of it gives him the strength to bear all else if only he can find redemption. �That is to say, so deep is the pain of sin in a person it must be presented as it is, so difficult that it has to be quite obvious that only Christianity is related to the consciousness of sin. To become a Christian for any other reason is quite literally lunacy, and that is how it should be.� (NB. NB., 1848) �Becoming what one understands is the only thorough way to understand, and one understands only according to what one oneself becomes.� (1848) �Being a Christian in Christendom in plain conformity is as impossible as doing gymnastics in a straitjacket.� ("Christendom", 1854) �Being an author is, on the other hand, not voluntary; on the contrary, it is in line with everything in my personality and its deepest urge.� (1847) �Being an individual man is a thing that has been abolished, and every speculative philosopher confuses himself with humanity at large, whereby he becomes something infinitely great--and at the same time nothing at all.� (Concluding Unscientific Postscript) |
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