Maltes Lesebuch
MALTES LESEBUCH
Guten Tag, mein "Lese- und Notizbuch" ist umgezogen. Ich habe es in die
modische Form eines Blogs gegossen:
Bonjour, mon "cahier des lectures et des notes" à déménagé.
Je l'ai transmis dans la forme modique d'un blog:
Goeiedag, mijn "lees- en notitieboek" is verhuisd. Ik heb het in de
modische vorm van een blog gegoten:
Hello, my "readings and notes" section has moved. I have put it into
the fashionable form of a blog:
www.woydt.be/blog/
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PRIVATHOME:
LESEBUCH:
WAY OF HISTORY
Way of history
"[Hegel] ... planted
in the generations leavened by him that admiration for the 'Power of History',
which transforms practically every moment into a naked admiration of success
and leads to idolatrous worship of the
factual. For this service people nowadays commonly repeat the very mythological
and, in addition, the truly German expression 'to carry the bill of facts'
But the person who has first
learned to stoop down and to bow his head before the 'Power
of History', finally nods his agreement mechanically, in the Chinese fashion,
to that power, whether it is a government
or public opinion or a numerical majority, and moves his limbs precisely to
the beat of strings plucked by some 'power' or other. ...
Create in yourselves a picture
to which the future is to correspond, and forget the myth that you are epigones.
You have enough to plan and to invent when you imagine that future life
for yourselves. But in considering history do not ask that she show you the
'How?' and the 'With what?'"
Friedrich Nietzsche:
On the Use and Abuse of History for Life (1874). translated by Ian C. Johnston
1998, Volltext
im Internet.
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