Ludwig Klages cytaty

Ludwik Klages – niemiecki filozof, psycholog i grafolog, twórca terminu logocentryzmu. Znany był z poglądów antysemickich [potrzebny przypis]. W Polsce do jego ustaleń psychologicznych nawiązywał Karol Irzykowski . Wikipedia

✵ 10. Grudzień 1872 – 29. Lipiec 1956

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Ludwig Klages: Cytaty po angielsku

“Everything purposeful is meaningless, and everything meaningful is purposeless.”

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Źródło: Rhythmen und Runen (1944), p. 280

“Beauty is but the cloak of happiness. Where joy tarries, there also is beauty.”

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Źródło: Rhythmen und Runen (1944), p. 468

“Whereas the Americans thought that they were fighting for such high-minded slogans as "liberty" and "justice," they were actually fighting to stuff the money bags of the big bankers. These "free citizens" are, in fact, mere marionettes; their freedom is imaginary, and a brief glance at American work-methods and leisure-time entertainments is enough to prove conclusively that l’homme machine is not merely imminent: it is already the American reality.”

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Sämtliche Werke, vol. 4, p. 409, as translated by Joseph Pryce

“Many first possess wealth, and are then possessed by it.”

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Źródło: Rhythmen und Runen (1944), p. 253

“A man who cannot climb a tree will boast of never having fallen out of one.”

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Źródło: Rhythmen und Runen (1944), p. 466

“The great masses, who have never been, in the history of mankind, more subject to hypnotic suggestion than they are right now, have become the puppets of the “public opinion” that is engineered by the newspapers in the service, it need hardly be emphasized, of the reigning powers of finance. What is printed in the morning editions of the big city newspapers is the opinion of nine out of ten readers by nightfall. The United States of America, whose more rapid “progress” enables us to predict the future on a daily basis, has pulled far ahead of the pack when it comes to standardizing thought, work, entertainment, etc.”

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Sämtliche Werke, vol. 4, p. 408, as translated by Joseph Pryce

“Christianity is the war against sleep and dream.”

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Źródło: Rhythmen und Runen (1944), p. 253

“The profundity of truth varies with the seeing power of the spirit which seeks it.”

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The Science of Character (1929), as translated by W. H. Johnston, p. 18