...humanism takes all human attitudes and fuses them together. If you stand up to it, you play its game; it lives on its opponents. There is a race of stubborn, stupid villains who lose to it every time: it digests all their violences and worst excesses, it turns them into a white, frothy lymph. It has digested anti-intellectualism, manicheism, mysticism, pessimism, anarchy and egotism: they are nothing more than stages, incomplete thoughts which find their justification only in humanism. Misanthropy also has its place in this concert: it is simply a discord necessary to the harmony of the whole. The misanthrope is a man: it is therefore inevitable that the humanist should be misanthropic to a certain degree. But he is a scientific misanthrope who has succeeded in determining the extent of hiss hatred, who hates men at first only to love them better later. I dont want to be integrated, i dont want my good red blood to go and fatten that lymphatic animal: i am not going to be fool enough to say that i am an anti-humanist. I am not a humanist, thats all. - Jean-Paul Sartre (Nausea)
Posted on: Tue, 08 Apr 2014 13:35:00 +0000
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