Friday, May 22, 2015

Not as a consumer or producer but rather as a human being

"God created man not as a consumer or producer but rather as a human being. That the means of life should not be the goal of life. That the stomach should not outgrow the head. That life is not exclusively based on the profit motive. That a human being is allotted time in order to have time and not to arrive somewhere faster with his legs than with his heart." -Karl Krause 
from 
The Kraus Project: Essays by Karl Kraus,
translated and annotated by Jonathan Franzen, 



 
"If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country."
-E.M. Forster