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I have come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element. It is my personal approach that creates the climate. It is my daily mood that makes the weather. I possess tremendous power to make life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration; I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal. In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis is escalated or de-escalated, and a person humanized or de-humanized. If we treat people as they are, we make them worse. If we treat people as they ought to be, we help them become what they are capable of becoming.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
posted by Intellectual Insurgent @ 11:45 AM
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Beautiful Insurgent.
There is a Kafka quote something to the effect that :
"Goethe said almost every thing that was important to us as human beings."
He was an overall genius that some people speculate was the very last person to pretty much understand everything that was available to understand in the period he lived, and to distill that into a humanitarian but realistic understanding of that time.
He was a scientist, as well as a fiction writer.
He wrote a couple of books. One was Elective Affinities which I read when I was young. I suggest it to anyone. It was cool.
Another of his contemporaries also was a brilliant writer that I also like.
Heinrich Vonkleist. Another brilliant writer.
Good show.
Someone who dabbled in science, yes, but his Zum Farbenlehre really had no scientific basis and as with many treatises and manifestos so passionately written and defended, it looks like a theory, It makes many intelligent and erudite people think and defend it is a theory, but it does not describe or predict phenomena and so it is wesentlich, not a theory at all.
Although he was speaking of Bonaparte when he wrote it, Goethe did warn against sacrificing everything in favor of an idea and it's implementation. "alles der Ausführung einer Idee zu opfern" Presumably everything includes honesty and objectivity.
Presumably too, we are also subject to more than "Wahlverwandtschaften;" affinities that we choose, nature and human nature being what they are, bat as a treatise on freedom and the perception of freedom, he has a great deal to say to us.
As a German Major, many years ago, I translated Heinrich von Kleist's Michael Kohlhaas, a sad tale of someone's long struggle for justice against arrogant authority; justice, and in a way freedom, only obtained along with his death. Dark stuff, like Kafka, but then life is dark, nicht wahr?
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