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“Certainly it seems more and more clear that what we call "normal" in psychology is really a psychopathology of the average, so undramatic and so widely spread that we don't even notice it ordinarily. The existentialist's study of the authentic person and of authentic living helps to throw this general phoniness, this living by illusions and by fear into a harsh, clear light which reveals it clearly as sickness, even though widely shared.”
― Toward a Psychology of Being
― Toward a Psychology of Being
“On this height I often stand, my Bellarmin! But a moment of reflection casts me down. I begin to think, and find myself as I was before, alone, with all the pains of mortality, and my heart’s sanctuary, the world's eternal oneness, is no more; nature’s arms are closed, and I stand before her like a stranger and cannot comprehend her.
Oh! had I never gone into your schools. It’s learning that lured me down into the pit, in my youthful folly I thought to find in it the proof of my pure joy, and it has ruined everything for me.
Amongst you I became so very rational, learnt to distinguish myself perfectly from what is around me, and now I’m set apart in the beautiful world, expelled from the garden of nature in which I grew and bloomed, and shrivel under the noonday sun.”
― Hyperion 1
Oh! had I never gone into your schools. It’s learning that lured me down into the pit, in my youthful folly I thought to find in it the proof of my pure joy, and it has ruined everything for me.
Amongst you I became so very rational, learnt to distinguish myself perfectly from what is around me, and now I’m set apart in the beautiful world, expelled from the garden of nature in which I grew and bloomed, and shrivel under the noonday sun.”
― Hyperion 1
“For this is the truth: I have departed from the house of the scholars, and the door have I also slammed behind me.
Too long did my soul sit hungry at their table: not like them have I got the knack of investigating, as the knack of nut-cracking.
Freedom do I love, and the air over fresh soil; rather would I sleep on ox-skins than on their honours and dignities.
- thus spoke zarathustra”
― Sämtliche Werke Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsches
Too long did my soul sit hungry at their table: not like them have I got the knack of investigating, as the knack of nut-cracking.
Freedom do I love, and the air over fresh soil; rather would I sleep on ox-skins than on their honours and dignities.
- thus spoke zarathustra”
― Sämtliche Werke Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsches
“aber da die Weltordnung durch den Tod bestimmt wird, ist es für Gott vielleicht besser, dass man nicht an ihn glaubt und mit aller Kraft gegen den Tod ankämpft, ohne die Augen zu diesem Himmel zu erheben, in dem er schweigt.”
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“Heute', sagte [Mersault], 'habe ich begriffen, dass Handeln und Lieben und Leiden tatsächlich Leben ist, aber Leben nur, soweit man sein Schicksal in sich einlässt und es hinnimmt als den einzigen Widerschein eines Regenbogens aus Freuden und Leidenschaften, der für alle der gleiche ist.”
― A Happy Death
― A Happy Death
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