I am myself—I am what I have.
I am what I did: I shall be what I do.
I am doing my work: I do exist my being.I have to do to be: I have to be to do.
I am not what I do: I undo what I am.
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Ambiguous Key Words
Reason
the breadth of reasonableness
the narrowness of rationalism
I - the “Ego”
‘I’ the unique subjective
‘I’ spoken by everyone else
is many / one
existence
entity
essence
truth
beauty—valuable
evil that exists—to be destroyed
Consciousness many / one
observed subjectivity
observing subjectivity
all
all of these but not those
all of all without exception
To exist
to be = to be static = death
to become = to be dynamic = life
Positive
positive good
positive evil
and negative statements as:
I know nothing
I have no knowledge
I know what nothing is
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Dialectics or Same Things as: "good" / "bad"
patience / weak-mindedness
tolerance / connivance
service / servitude, servility
independence / instability
freedom / chaos, crime
liberty / license
popularization / vulgarization
law and order /slavery, rigidity
conversion / apostasy
rectitude / bigotry
sincerity / priggishness
virtue / constraint justice revengefulness, punishment universal / insipid, colourless
grace / caprice
to sacrifice / to squander, to destroy, to betray the incomprehensible / the absurd
honour /conceit, arrogance, want of humility
equality / monotony (undiversity)
fraternity / nepotism
Up-to-Date Glossary
Beauty—the current style of hair-do and make-up.
Truth—What no one knows—does it matter? Perhaps what science is about to reveal to us after religion has had its day in doing so.
Goodness—= gracious (a gentle exclamation).
Philosophy—Solipsism (‘What am I?’ and all that: rather discreditable).
Psychology—Solalterism (‘What you are’ and all that: better than philosophy).
Psychoanalysis—Well, well! very deep and dirty.
Ethics—my right to decide what they shall do.
Politics—your right to oppose me.
Government—their obstruction of us.
Art—the normalization of the Enormous (e.g., Empire State Building, Tachisme, Auschwitz memorial, and what next?) Duty—to be politically conscious.
Christianity—the opposite of Marxism.
Marxism—the opposite of Christianity.
The Middle Way—sitting on the fence.
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Two kinds of people: Those who, when a new idea is placed before them immediately assess it in terms of good and evil, and if received as good, they refuse to consider its impossibility, but, if received as evil, they refuse to countenance its possibility; and those who assess it in terms of possibility or impossibility, and if received as impossible, refuse to consider whether it is good, but if received as possible, then for them its possibility is more interesting than its evil—Ethics and Science.
Nanamoli Thera from Thinker's Notebook
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