Books read between Sept 01, 05 to Nov 19, 05

Brother Karamazov by Dostoevsky
Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin
An autobiography by Ansel Adams
Siddartha by Hermund Hesse
American Photographs (enjoyed)
The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time by Jeffrey Sachs
The US the Soviet UNion and the third world
Politics, trade and development
Ernando de Soto: Mystery of Capital
Howard Zinn: People's history of the United States
Yann Martel: Life of Pi
The origin of Capitalism

Aborted: Homi Baba's Location of culture

BROTHER KARAMAZOV by DOSTOYEVSKY
p.38: No, not about Diderot. Above all, don’t lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and litens to his own lie comes to such a pass that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love, and in order to occupy and distract himself without love he gives way to passions and coarse pleasures, and sinks to bestiality in his vices, all from continual lying to other men and to himself. The man who lies to himself can be more easily offended than anyone. You know it is sometimes very pleasant to take offence, isnt’ it? A man may know that nobody has insulted him, but hat he has invented the insult for himself, has lied and exaggerated to make it picturesque, has caught at a word and made a mountain out of a molehill – he knows that himself, yet he will be the firt to take offence, nad will revel in his resentment till he feels great pleasure in it, and so pass to genuine vindictiveness. But get up, sit down, I beg you. All this, too is deceitful posturing …

p.83: As he uttered the last word of his tirade, Miusov completely recovered his self-complacency, and all traces his former irritation disappeared. He fully and sincerely loved humanity again.

p.173: “that the science of this world, which has become a great power, has, especially in the last century, analysed everything divine handed down to us in the holy books. After this cruel analysis the learned of this world have nothing left of all that was sacred of old. But they have only analysed the parts and overlooked the whole, and indeed their blindness is marvellous. Yet the whole still stands steadfast before their eyes, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. Has it not lasted nineteen centuries, is it not still a living a moving power in the individual soul dand in the masses of people? It is still as strong and living even in the souls of atheists, who have destroyed everything!

p.238: Then you know what for. It is different for other people; but we in our green youth have to settle the eternal questions first of all. That’s what we care about. Young Russia is talking about nothing but the eternal questions now. Just when the old folks are all taken up with practical questions. Why have you been looking at me in expectation for the last three months? To ask me, 2What do you believe, or don’t you believe at all2? That’s what your eyes have been meaning for these three months, have not they?

p.331 (g) of prayer, of love, and of contact with other worlds:
Young man, be not forgetful of prayer. Every time you pray, if your prayer is sincere there will be new feeling and new meaning in it, which will give you fresh courage, and you will understand that prayer is an education. Remember too, every day and wherever you can, repeat to yourself:” Lord, have mercy on all who appear before Thee to-day” For every hour and every moment thousands of men leave life on this earth, and their souls appear before God. And how many of them depart in solitude, unknown, sad, dejected, that no one mourns for them or even knows whether they have lived or not.

p.333: OF the pride of Satan what I think is this: it is hard for us on eath to comprehend it, and therefore it is so easy to fall into error and to share it, even emagining that ewe are doing something grand and fine. Indeed many of the strongest feeling and moevements of our nature we cannot comprehend on earth. Let not htat be stunling-block, and think not that it may serve as a justification to you for anything. For the Eternal Judge asks of you what you can comprehend and not what you cannot. You will know that yourself hereafter, for you will behold all thing truly then and will not dispute them.

p.363: The great grief in his heart swallowed up every sensation that might have been aroused, and if only he could have thought clearly at that moment he would have realised that he had not the strongest armour to protect him from every lust and temptation. Yet in spite of the vague irresposiveness of his spiritual condition and the sorrow that overwhelmed him, he could not help wondering at a new and strange sensation in his heart.

p.579: Итгэлийн 500 гр наранцэцэгийн тос зарах гэж явах(өдрийн хоолны үеэр бусад элдвийн бараа таваар зардаг найз нартайгаа дайралдан хуушуур цохиж суухдаа санаа орж ирнэ. Ингээд бүгд бооцоо тавиад зарахаар хүмүүс дундуур орон алга болно. Хамгийн гол пойнт нь өөрийнхөө чадварт дэндүү итгэлтэйгээс үүдэх аж.)
And the owner wasnot looking, he was talking to someone, so I had nothing to do, the goose thrust its head in after the oats of itself, under the cart just under the wheel. I winked at the lad, he tugged at the bridle, and crack! The goose’s neck was broken in half. And as luch would have it, all the peasants saw us at that moemnet and they kicked up a shindy at once. ‘You did aht on purpose!’ “ No, not on purpose” ‘ Yes you did, on purpose! Ell, they shouted, ‘take him to the justice of the peace!’ Kolya is the guy who is very confident as well and lied under the train until it passed. That is the particular emphasis on his character. (pay attention in the character building as well)

p.582: (Itgel’s one of the main characteristics will be the following)
“I am fagging away at Latin because I have to, because I promised my mother to pass my examination, and I think that whatever you do, it is worth doing it well. But in my soul I have a profound contempt for the classics and all that fraud…. You don’t agree, Karamazov?”
Why froud? Alyosha smiled again.
“Well, all the classical authors have been translated into all languages, so it was not for the sake of studying the calssics they introduced Latin, but solely as a police measure, to stupefy the intelligence. So what can one call it but a fraud?”
Why, who taught you all thi s, cird Alyosha, surprised at the last.
“In the first place I am capable of thinking for myself without being taught. Besides, what I said just now about the classics being trandlated our teacher Kolbasnikov has said to the whole of the third class.”

p.583: “I have long learned to respect you as a rare person,” Kolyoa muttered again, faltering and uncertain. “I have heard you are a mystic and have been in the monastery. I know you are mystic, but … that has not pu me off. Contact with real life will cure you. … It is always so with characters like yours.”
“What do you mean by mystic? Cure me of what?” ALyosha was rather astonished.
“Oh, God and all the rest of it.”
“What, don’t you believe in God?”
“Oh, I have nothing against God. OF course, Go di sonly a hypothesis, but … I admit athat He is needed … for the order of the universe and all that … and that if there were no God He would have to be invented, “ added Kolya, beginning to blush. (NOTICE the 3 dots in between to stimulate a pause in the conversation, but also connect the statements)

p.585: I think, too, that to leave one’s own country and fly to America is mean, worse than mean-silly. Why go to America when one may be of great service to humanity here? Now especially. There is a perfect mass of fruitful activity open to us. That’s what I answered.

p.721: “I was once indebted to him for assistance in money for more than three thousand, and I took it, although I could not at that time foresee that I should ever be in a position to repay my debt.” There was a note of defiance in her voice. It was then Fetyukovitch began his cross-examination.

p.740: “For my part I wish the excellent and gifted young man every success; I trust that his youthful idealism and impulse towards the ideas of the people may never degenerate, as often happens, on the moral side into gloomy mysticism, and on the political into blind Chauvinism- two elements which are even a greater menace to Russia than the premature decay, due to misunderstanding and gratiotous adoption of European ideas, from which his elder brother is suffering.” […]
“But to return to the elsest son,” Ippolit Kirillovitch went on. “He is the prisoner before us. We have his life and his actions, too, before us; the fatal day has come and all has been brought to the surface. While his brothers seem to stand for ‘Europeanism’ and the ‘principles of the people’, he seems to represent Russia as she is. Oh not all Russia, not all! God preserve us, if it were! Yet, here we have her, our mother Russia, the very scent and sound of her. Oh, he is spontaneous, he is a marvellous mingling of good and evil, he is a lover of culture and Schiller, yet he brawls in taverns and plucks out the beards of his boon companions. Oh he, too, can be good and noble ideas, but only if they come of themselves, if they fall from heaven for him, if they …
[TYPICAL MONGOLIAN ATTITUDE should be presented through the assistant character]

Ansel Adams' letter to his friend Cedric

Dear Cedric,

A strange thing happened to me today. I saw a big thundercloud move down over Half Dome, and it was so big and clear and brilliant that it made me see many things that were drifting around inside of me; things that related to those who are loved and those who are real ftiends.
For the first time I know what love is; what ftiends are; and what art should be.
Love is a seeking for a way of life; the way that cannot be followed alone; the resonance of all spiritual and physical things. Children are not only of flesh and blood - children may be ideas, thoughts, emotions. The person of the one who is loved is a form composed of a myriad mirrors reflecting and illuminating the powers and thoughts and the emotions that are within you, and flashing another kind of light from within. No words or deeds may encompass it.
Friendship is another form of love - more passive perhaps) but full of the transmitting and acceptances of things like thunderclouds and grass and the clean reality of granite.
Art is both love and ftiendship and understanding: the desire to give.
It is not charity, which is the giving of things. It is more than kindness) which is the giving of self. It is both the taking and giving of beauty, the turning out to the light the inner folds of the awareness of the spirit. It is the recreation on another plane of the realities of the world; the tragic and wonderful realities of earth and men) and of all the interrelations of these.
Ansel

THE JOURNEY TO THE EAST
He who travels far will often see things
Far removed from what he believed was Truth
When he talks about it in the fields at home,
He is often accused of lying

For the obdurate people will not believe
What they do not see and distincly feel
Inexperience, I believe
Will give little credence to my song!


... His suffering became too great, and you know that as soon as suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward. Borther H. was led to despair in his test, and despair is hte result of each earnest attempt to understand and to fulfill their requirements.

SIDDHARTHA
Siddhartha does nothing; he waits, he thinks, he fasts, but he goes through th eaffairs of the world like the stone through water, without doing anything, without bestirring himself; he is drawn and lets himself fall. He is drawn by his goal, for he does not allow anything to enter his mind which opposes his goal. That is what Siddhartha learnt from the Samanas. It is what fools call magic and what they think is caused by demons. Nothing is caused by demons; there are no demons. Everyone can perform fast.

... 'Maybe' said Siddhartha wearily. 'I am like you. You cannot love either, otherwise how could you practise love as an art? Perhaps people like us cannot love. Ordinary people can - that is their secret'

... Siddhartha himself acquired some of the characteristics of the ordinary people, some of their childishness adn some of their anxiety. And yet he envied them; the more he became like them, the more he envied them. He envied them them hte one thing that he lacked and that htey had: the sense of importance with which they lived hteir lives, the depth of their pleasures and sorrows, the anxious but sweet happiness of their continual power to love.

... When someone is seeking, said Siddhartha, it happens quite easily that he only sees the thing that he is seeking; that he is unable to find anythin g, unable to absorb anything, because he is only thinking of hte thing he is seeking, because he has a goal, because he is obsessed with his goal. Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal.

... Wisdom is not communicable. The wisdom which a wise man tries to communicate always sounds foolish.

Books read between Sept.04 to June 7, 05

Quote: At the center, human-kind struggles with collective powers for its freedom; the individual struggles with dehumanization for the possession of his soul. "Saul Bellow"

Books read:
The Wretched of the Earth -by Franz Canon (excerpts are in my diary)
Economic Development: history of an idea by Arndt (Prof. Kozel's favorite)
The economic transformation of Eastern Europe: the case of Poland by Jeffrey Sachs
Globalization and its discontents by Joseph Stiglitz (for International finance class)
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy -by Douglas Adams
The camera by Ansel Adams (for photographers)
Mind Over Water : Lessons on Life from the Art of Rowing by Craig Lambert (for rowers) Textbook of Oarsmanship : A Classic of Rowing Technical Literature by Gilbert C. Bourne (for rowers)
Thomas Eakins : The Rowing Pictures by Helen Cooper (for rowers)
Made in USA by professor Hybel
Orientalism + Culture and imperialism by Edward Said
Political economy Journal of Development studies (articals of corruption theories)
Turner Diaries by Andrew MacDonald
Holy war by Lincoln Unholy war by Esposito (recommended)
Globalization and its discontents by Stephen McBride and John Wiseman
International monetary system
Samuel Huntington: Clash of civilizations
Unholy war by Esposito
From third world to First by Lee Kuan Yew
Inside Al-Queda
Clash of Civilizations by Huntington
Keynes biography
The miracle of midfulness by Thich nhat hanh
Apocalypse in Oklahoma city by Hamm
Brave New World by Adolf Haxley
Terror in the mind of God by Juergensmeyer
Killin for life: Religious Voilence in contemporary Japan Ian Reader
The Shadow economy by Schneider and EnsteBooks
Thinking strategically : the competitive edge in business, politics, and everyday
Patriot by Yukio MIshima
Forbidden Colors by Yukio MIshima
Thirst for love by Yukio MIshima
The castle by Kafka
The heart is a lonely hunter by Carson McCullers
Inside Nietzsche by Eugene Victor Wolfenstein
Memories, Dreams, Reflections by Carl Gustav Jung
History of Western Philosophy, Bertrand Russell



Bertrand Russell: History of Western Philosophy
The conceptions of life and the world which we call “philosophical” are a product of two factors: one, inherited religious and ethical conceptions; the other, the sort of investigation which may be called “scientific”, using this word in its broadest sense.
All definite knowledge – so I should contend – belongs to science; all dogma as to what surpasses definiete knowledge belongs to theology. But between thoelofy and science there is NO Man’s Land, expose d to attack from both sidesl this NO Man’s Land is philosophy.
There is here a reciprocal causation: the circumstances of men’s lives do much to determine their philosophy, but, conversely, their philosophy does much to determine their circumstances.
In the protestant theory, there should be no earthly intermediary between the soul and God. The effects of this change were momentous. Truth was no longer to be ascertained by consulting authority, but by inward meditation.

Every community is exposed to two opposite dangers: ossification through too much discipline and reverence for tradition , on the one hand; on the other hand, dissolution, or subjection to foreign conquest, through the growth of an individualism and personal independence that makes co-operation impossible.

To the man or woman who , by compulsion, is more civilized in behavious than in feeling, rationality is irksome and virtue is felt as a burden and a slavery. This leads to a reaction in thought , in feeling and in conduct.

True forethought only arises when a man does something towards which no impulse urges him, because his reason tells him that he will profit by it at some future date.
Whe an intelleigent man expresses a view which seems to us obviously absurd, we should not attempt to prove that it is somehow true, but we should try to understand how it ever came to seem true.

Religions seeks permanence in two forms, God and immortality. IN God is no varialeness neither shadow of turningl the life after death is eternal and unchanging.

Atomists unlike Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle, sought to explain the world without introducing the notion of purspose or final cause.

A stupid mans report of what a clever man says is never accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into somehitn g that he can understand.
Dialectic, that is to say, the method of seeking knowledge by question and answer, was not invented by Socrates.
Not only criminals, but women, slavesw, and inferrionrs generally ought not to be imitated by superior men

Memories, Dreams, Reflections
Page 80: This period of my life was filled with conflicting thoughs Schopenhayer and Christianity would not square with one another, for one thing; and for another, No. 1 wanted to free himself from the pressure or melancholy of No.2 It was not No.2 who was depressed, but No. 1 when he remembered No. 2.

Page 88: Now I knew that No. 1 was the bearer of the light and that NO.2 followed him like a shadow. My task was to shield the light and not look back at the vita peracta; this was evidently a forbidden realm of light of a different sort. I must go forward against the storm, which sought to thrust me back into the immeasurable darkness of a world where one is aware of nothing except the surfaces of the thing in the background. In the role of No. 1, had to go forward – into study, moneymaking, responsibilities, entanglements, confusions, errors, submissions, defeats. The storm pushing against me was time, ceaselessly flowing into the past, which just as ceaselessly dogs our heels. It exerts a mighty suction which greadily draws everything living into itself; we can only escape from it – for a while – by pressing forward. TH past is teeribly real and present, and it cathches everyone who cannot save his skin with a satisfactory answer.

Page 108: The director was locked up in the same institution with his patients, and the institution was equally cut off, isolated on the outskirts ofhte city like an ancient lazaret with its lepers. No one like looking in that direction. The dortors knew almost as little as the layman and therefore shared his feelings.

Page142: What this patient needed was a masculine reaction. In this case it would have been entirely wrong to “go along.” That would have been worse than useless. She had a compulsion neurosis because she could not impose moral restraint upon herself. Such people must then have some other form of restraint – and along come the compulsive symptoms to serve the purpose.

Page 160: The ground floor stood for the first level of the unconscious. The deeper I went, the more alien and darler the scene became. IN the case, I discovered remains of a primitive culture, that is, the world of the primitive man within myself – a world which can scarcely be reached or illuminated by consciousness. The primithive psycje of man borders on the life of the animal soul, just as the caves of prehistoric times were usually inhabited by animals before men laid claim to them.

Page 168: “archaic vestiges”; It is a widespread error to imagine that I do not see the value of sexuality. ON the contrary it plays a large part in my psychology as an essential – though not the sole – expression of psychic wholeness. […] Sexuality is of the greatest importance as the expression ofhte chthonic spirit. That spirit question of the chthonic spirit has occupied me ever since I began to delve into the world of alchemy.

Page 183: He said I treated thoughts as isf I generated them myself, but in his view thoughts were like animals in the forest, or people in a room, or birds in the air, and added, “If you should see people in a room, you would not thing that you had made those people, or that you were responsible for them.” It was he who taught me psychic objectivity, the reality of the psyche. Through him the distinction was clarified between myself and the object of my thought.

Page 187: The essential thing is to differentiate oneself from these unconscious contents by personifying them, and at the same time to bring them into relationship with consciousness. That is th etechnique for stripping them of their power. It is not too difficult to personify them, as they always posses a certain degree of autonomy, a separate identity of their own. Their autonomy is a most uncomfortable thing to reconcile oneself to, and yet the very fact aht thte unconscious presents itself in that way give us the best means of handling it. […] As soon as image was there, the unrest or the sense of oppression vanished. The whole energy of these emotions was transformed into interet in and curiosity about the image.

Page 192: It is equally a grave mistake to think that it is enough to gain some understanding of the images and htat knowledge can here make a halt. Insight into them must be converted into an ethical obligation. Not to do so is to fall prey to the power principle, and this produces dangerous effects which are destructive not only to others by even to the knower. The image of the unconscious place a great responsibility upon a man. Failure to understand them, or a shirking ofethical responisibility, deprives him of his wholeness and imposes a painful fragmentariness on his life.

The heart is a lonely hunter by Carson McCullers
Resentment is the msot precious flower of poverty. "The heart is lonely hunter"Again from Carson McCullers"And when they werre even babies he would tell them of the yoke they must thrust from their shoulders - the yoke of submission and slothfulness. ANd when they were a little older he would impress upon them that there was no God, but that their lives were holy and for each one of them there was this real true purpose. He would tell it to them over and over, and they would sit together far away from him and look with their big Negro-children eyes at their mother. And Daisy would sit without listening, gentle and stubborn. ... Wherever you look there's meanness and corruption. this room, this bottle of grape wine, these fruits in the basket, are all products of profit and loss.

List of some books read between 2003 and 2004

Quote: All this writers demonsrate that independence, individualism, and self-reliance were not ideas confined to teh American Classic authors but were ideals deeply embedded in the AMerican consciousness. (the writings of the little writers reflect the ideals of hte big writers; of course they read hte big ones)Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. Ralph Waldo Emerson

The list of some books I remember of reading between 2003 and 2004:
The Alchemist, by Paulo Coelho
Veronika decides to Die, by Paulo Coelho
By the river Piedra I sat down and wept, by Paulo Coelho
Fifth mountain, by Paulo Coelho
The Valkyries, by Paulo Coelho
The Pilgrimage by Paulo Coelho
James Joyce-n The portrait of an artist as a young man
The sun also rises by Ernst Hemingway
Faust by Goethe
Ethic for the new Millennium by Dalai Lama (His holiness)
1984 by George Orwell
The Lord of the Rings by Tolkein
Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
Stephen King, Night Shift (Collection)
Steven Hawking, Brief history of time
Thomas More, Utopia
Tao Te ching, Lao Tzu
The Limits of Sceince by Peter Medawar
Oscar Wild, The picture of Dorien GRey
Dalai Lama book
Critique of pure reason, Kant (aborted half way throuhg)
Is Islamic threat myth of reality, Esposito
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Nietzche (took me a month to read it)
Interpretation of Dreams, Sigmund Freud
Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeere
Mein Kampf, Adolf Hitler
Metamorphesis, Franz Kafka
The Prince, Machivelli
One hundred years of solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Ballad of reading gaol, Oscar Wilde
Your personality and you by Sarah Splaver

Foreign affairs Fareed Zakaria
Culture is hot. By culture I dont mean Wagner and Abstract Expresionnism - they have always been hot - but rather culture as an explanation for social phnomena. ... Cultural explanations persist because intellectuals like them. They make valuable the detailed knowledge of countries histories, which intellectuals have in great supply. They add an air of mystery and complexity to the study of societies.... But culture itself can be shaped and changed. Behind so many cultural attitudes, tastes, and preferences lie the political and economic forces that shaped them.

George Orwell 1984
Tragedy, he perceived, belonged to the ancient time, to a time when there was still privacy, love, and friendship, and when the members of a family stood by one another without needing to know the reason. With its grace and carelessness it seemed to annihilate a whole culture, a whole system of thought, as though Big Brother and the Party and the Thought Police could all be swept into nothingness by a single splendid movement of the arm. That too was a gesture belonging to the ancient time.
And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed -if all records toldthe same tale -- then the lie passed into history and became truth. 'Who controls the past,' ran the Party slogan, 'controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.' Andyet the past, It was true that therewas no such person as Comrade Ogilvy, but a few lines of printand a couple of faked photographs would soon bring him into existence.
All that was required of them was a primitive patriotism which could be appealed to whenever it was necessary to make them accept longer working-hours or shorter rations. Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows. He knew that he was starving the other two, but he could not help it; he even felt that he had a right to do it. They can't get inside you. If you can feel that staying human is worth while, even when it can't have any result whatever, you've beaten them.'
-Applied to an opponent, it means the habit of impudently claiming that black is white, incontradiction of the plain facts. Applied to a Party member, it means a loyal willingness to say that black is white when Party discipline demands this. But it means also the ability to believe that black is white, and more, to know that black is white, and to forget that one has ever believed the contrary. This demands a continuous alteration of the past, made possible by the system of thought which really embraces all the rest, and which is known in Newspeak as doublethink.
- Tragedy, he perceived, belonged to the ancient time, to a time when there was still privacy, love, and friendship, and when the members of a family stood by one another without needing to know the reason.
- With its grace and carelessness it seemed to annihilate a whole culture, a whole system of thought, as though Big Brother and the Party and the Thought Police could all be swept into nothingness by a single splendid movement of the arm. That too was a gesture belonging to the ancient time.
And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed -if all records told the same tale - then the lie passed into history and became truth. 'Who controls the past,' ran the Party slogan, controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.' And yet the past, It was true that there was no such person as Comrade Ogilvy, but a few lines of print and a couple of faked photographs would soon bring him into existence.
All that was required of them was a primitive patriotism which could be appealed to whenever it was necessary to make them accept longer working-hours or shorter rations. Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two makes four. If that is granted, all else follows. -He knew that he was starving the other two, but he could not help it; he even felt that he had a right to do it.
They can’t get inside you. If you can feel that staying human is worth while, even when it can’t have any result whatever, you've beaten them.'
- In our society, those who have the best knowledge of what is happening are also those who are furthest from seeing the world as it is. In general, the greater the understanding, the greater the delusion; the more intelligent, the less sane.
-It is time for you to gather some idea of what power means. The
first thing you must realize is that power is collective. The individual only has power in so far as he ceases to be an individual.

Oscar Wilde, Ballad of reading gaol
OF HEAVEN OR HELL I HAVE NO THOUGHT OR FEAR,
SEEING I KNOW NO OTHER GOD BUT THEE;

Look heaven-ward! shall God allow this thing?
Nay! but some flame-girt Raphael shall come down,
and smite the spoiler with the sword of pain.

The cycles of revolving years
May free my heart from all its fears
And teach my lips a song to sing
Sing on! sing on! let the dull world grow young,

Sing on ! sing on! I woudl be drunk wihtlife.
Drunk with the trampled vintage of my youth,
I would forget the wearying wasted strife,
The riven veil, the Gorgon eyes of Truth,
The prayerless vigil and the cry for prayer,
The barren gifts, the lifted arms, the dull insensate air!

the little white clouds are racing over hte sky,
and the fields are strewn with the gold of hte flower of March,
The daffodil breaks under foot, and the tasselled larch

While the hot sun blazed in his tower of blue
A cooling wind crept form the land of snows,
nad hte warm south with tender tears of dew

It never feels decay but gathers life
From the pure sunlight and hte supreme air,
We live beneath Time's wasting sovereignty.
It is the child of all eternity.

The kingfisher flies like an arrow , and wounds the air.

Book on Chaos
Chaos may cause uncertainty but it also creates the opportunities that create hope and change
But one of the central concepts of chaos theory is that while it is impossible to exactly predict the state of a system, it is generally quite possible, even easy, to model the overall behavior of a system.
Chaos theory predicts that complex nonlinear systems are inherently unpredictable--but, at the same time, chaos theory also insures that often, the way to express such an unpredictable system lies not in exact equations, but in representations of the behavior of a system--in plots of strange attractors or in fractals.
Instead of looking for strict equations conforming to statistical data, we can now look for dynamic systems with behavior similar in nature to the statistical data--systems, that is, with similar attractors. Chaos theory provides a sound framework with which to develop scientific knowledge.
And of course, chaos theory gives people a wonderfully interesting way to become more interested in mathematics, one of the more unpopular pursuits of the day.
Chaos theory models how the world works, from weather patterns, to stock market shifts, to art, to brain patterns, to social structures, to something as seemingly non-scientific as interpersonal relationships themselves.
Though the world is infinitely complicated, there appear to be spooky patterns that exist within the world.
Fractals {{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{
While chaos theory attempts to explain how dynamical systems change over time (and why they change over time), fractal geometry deals with the actual images that these dynamical systems produce.Why should systems that are so dynamically complex and chaotic possess this self-similarity? This self-similarity is often explained in terms of holism, an interpretation of the geometry in terms of parts. In his book Fractals: The Patterns of Chaos, science writer, John Briggs explains the holistic phenomenon in terms of the weather,
Each time the iteration is conducted, more lines to the figure are introduced, and thus the total perimeter of the figure is lengthened. However, the area of the Koch curve is never greater than a semi-circle drawn around the curve itself. Thus, what results is a figure with an infinite perimeter that has a bounded area. By thinking in terms of two or three dimensions, this poses a clear problem. How can something have an infinite perimeter yet a finite area?
The idea that there is a way to model seemingly unpredictable processes, and that this process holds both beautiful and definite structures, points to the conclusion that there might be a greater "force" governing the behavior of the universe.}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}

However, the reason that humans are able to see the past but not the future is because they are positioned the wrong way; humans can only look backwards. Perhaps someone else, existing outside of time, sitting on a bench looking at the mountain range could see time in its entirety. Even with the puzzling implications of quantum chaos, there is no reason to believe that the future is not just as fixed as the past until a better conception of time is understood.To offer some conciliation however, even if all events in the universe (both “past” and “future”) are already known by an observer outside of time, this still does not imply that they are caused. Just think about the doctor who advises his smoking patient. The doctor knows that with the patient’s weak lungs, if he does not quite smoking he will soon develop lung cancer. This does not mean that the doctor causes the cancer however. The doctor can foresee a future event, but he does not cause that future event. Similarly, it is not entirely accurate to say that just because the future may be already known by an observer that exists outside of time that free will must be abandoned.
Mandelbrot eventually obtained all of the available data on cotton prices, dating back to 1900. When he analyzed the data with IBM's computers, he noticed an astonishing fact: The numbers that produced aberrations from the point of view of normal distribution produced symmetry from the point of view of scaling. Each particular price change was random and unpredictable. But the sequence of changes was independent on scale: curves for daily price changes and monthly price changes matched perfectly. Incredibly, analyzed Mandelbrot's way, the degree of variation had remained constant over a tumultuous sixty-year period that saw two World Wars and a depression.
Later, a scientist by the name of Feigenbaum was looking at the bifurcation diagram again. He was looking at how fast the bifurcations come. He discovered that they come at a constant rate. He calculated it as 4.669. In other words, he discovered the exact scale at which it was self-similar. Make the diagram 4.669 times smaller, and it looks like the next region of bifurcations. He decided to look at other equations to see if it was possible to determine a scaling factor for them as well. Much to his surprise, the scaling factor was exactly the same. Not only was this complicated equation displaying regularity, the regularity was exactly the same as a much simpler equation. He tried many other functions, and they all produced the same scaling factor, 4.669.

Crime and punishment
think this is only the flower and the real fruit is to come.

Shall not one little crime be effaced and atoned for by a thousand good deeds?
An extraodinary ma n has a right not officially but understood but from and by his very indivisuality to permit his consience to overstep certain bounds only so far as the realisation on one of his ideas may require it.

They did not know that a new life is not given for nothing; that it has to be paid dearly for and only acquired by muich parience and suffering and great future thoughts.

Critique of pure reason
At the same time, this indifference , which has arisen in the wolr of science, and which relates to that kind of knowledge which we should wish to see destroyed the last, is a phenomenon that well deserves our attention and reflection. It is plainly no th eeffect of the levity, but of the matured judgement of the age which refuses to be any longer entertained with illusory knowledge, It is, in fact, a call to reason, again to undertake the most laborious of all tasks-- that of self-examination, and to establish a tribunal, which may secure it in its well-grounded claims, while it pronounces against all baseless assumptions and pretensions, no in an arbitrary manner, but according to its own eternal and unchangeable laws. This tribunal is nothing less than the critical investigation of pure reason.

... it is my task to answer the question how far reason can go, without the material presented and the aid furnished by experience.
... he other considers the pure understanding itself, its possibility and its powers of cognition-- that is, form a sujective point of view; and, although this exposition is of great importance, it does not belong essentially to th emain purpose of the work, because the grand question is what and how much can reason and understanding, apart from experience, cognize, and not, how is the faulty of thought itself possible?
... We do not enlarge but disfifure the sciences when we lose sight of their respective limits and allow them to run into one another.
... they learnt that reason only perceives that which it produces after its own design; that it must not be content to follwo, as it were, in the leading strings of nature, but must proceed in advance with principles of judgement according to unvarying laws, and compel nature to reply its questions.
... Or, if the path has only hitherto been missed, what indications do we possess to guide us in a renewed investigation, and to enable us to hope for greater success that has fallen to the lot of our predecessors?

(Disorder versus order in brain function)

Determinism
Laplaceean view of determinism.
An intellifence knowing all the forces acting in the nature art a given instant as well as the momentary positions of all things int eh universe would bne able to comprehend in one single formula athe motions of the largest bodies as well as a lightest atoms in the world provided that its intellect were sufficiently powerful to subject all data to analysis; to it nothing would be uncertain the future mas wella s the past would be present to its eyes. (Laplace 1820)


Chapter 9. (Brain creates macroscopic order from microscopic disorder by neuro-dynamics in perception)
Conclusion
The essential difference between the theories for passive versus active perception comes down to the source of the order created from disorder. In the passive view, the order is derived from a postulated “object” that exists outside the brain, so the form that is constructed within the brain is called “representation” of the object. In the active vie, the form that results from exploratory action into the world outside is constructed inside the brain by a learning process of generalization. The construct embodies the meaning of an experience with an “object”, so it can not be said to represent the object. The reason that brain must work this way is that the world is infinitely complex, whereas brains are finite state systems. The “objects” that occupy the world shared by all observers are different for every observer, and the delineation of each object on every presentation is never quite the same. (that is the reason of failure to artificial intelligence)
Noise is essential for maintaining the health of neurons and it provides the unstructures pre and post synaptic co-activity that is required to form new attractors with Hebbian learning instead of merely reinforcing existing attractors.

Chapter 11. (Conciousness, schemata and language)

Divine comedy
First: Virtues pagans
Second: Wanton-- last
Third: Gluttonous
Fourth: avaricious(greed)
Fifth: irascible (characterized by anger)
Sixth: heresiarch
Seventh: violent

You citizens were wont to call me Ciacco;
For the pernicious sin of gluttony
I, as thou seest, am battered by this rain.

Distributing the light in equal measure;
He in like manner to the mundane splendours
Ordained a general ministress and guide,
That she might change at times the empty treasures
From race to race, from one blood to another,
Beyond resistance of all human wisdom.

More than a thousand at the gates I saw
Out of the Heavens rained down, who angrily
Were saying, "Who is this that without death

Goes through the kingdom of the people dead?"
And my sagacious Master made a sign
Of wishing secretly to speak with them.

O ye who have undistempered intellects,
Observe the doctrine that conceals itself
Beneath the veil of the mysterious verses!

Kurl Hahn - Harrogate speech
Originality
Shortly before he died Prince Max lead an enthusiastic America friend around his Salem schools. The friend asked, "What are you proudest of in your beautiful schools?" Prince Max answered, "I am proudest of the fact that there is nothing original in the,; it is stolen from everywhere, from teh Boy Scouts, the British Public Schools, from Plato, from Goethe." Then the American said. "But oughtn't you aim at being original?" Prince Max answered, " In medicine as in education, you must harvest the wisdom of thousand years. IF you ever come across a surgeon who wants to take out your appendix in the most original manner possible, I strongly advise you to go to another surgeon."

May I ebgin by quoting what Charles Dickens has said in Great Expectations:
"That was a memorable day to me, for it made great changes in me. But it is the same with any life. Imagine one selected day struck out of it and think how different its course would have been. Pause you who read this and think for a moment of the long chain of iron and gold, of thorns or flowers that would never have bound you but for the formation of the first link on that memorable day."
I dont blame the youngsters, I blame the adult world and I also blame those schools which do not accept a remedial responsibility, in other words, which fail to introduce into the timetable health - giving activities designed to develop certain tastes and distastes. I am referring to emotional habits likely to make the young resistant to the insidious influences to which tehy are inevitably exposed.
Faith in human nature is viatl element in this humanity.
In a democratic society you can only accelerate develop,ents by example.
He who drills and labours, accepts hardship, boredom and dangers, all for the sake of helping his brother in peril and distress discovers GOd's purpose in his inner life.

"Hiroshima Nagasaki: apictorial record of the atomic destruction"
HIroshima
OUt of those blue skies come hte two most powertfil weapoms of mass destruction yet devised, the first two atomic bombs used in war the first at 8:15 am on August the 6th on Hiroshima, cored with uranium; the second, of plutonium, on Nagasiki at11:02 am on august the 9th. 130,00-140,000 people die instantly in Hiroshima and anotehr 60,000 - 70,000 in Nagasaki.
hibakusha -- bomb affected survivors
OH my GOODNESS!!!

Aim: It is published in the hope that people all over the world, especially younger generation will realize what is the meaning of the damage and after effects of the atomic bombing and the lingering suffering of the hibakusha. (HSI)

History of psycoanalysis
It was proved that psychoanalysis could not clear up anything actual. except by going back to something in the past.

It may, therefore, be said that the psychoanalytic theory endeavors to explain two experiences, which result in a striking and unexpected manner during the attempt to trace back the morbid symptoms of a neurotic to their source in his life-history; viz., the facts of transference and of resistance.

Interpretation of dreams
Interpretation of Dreams (Sigmund Freud) page 47

Dream converts the slight sensations perceived in sleep into intense sensations, which led him to conclude that dreams might easily betray to the physician the first indications of an incipient physical change which escaped observation during the day.

Symbolic dream interpretation - envisages the dream-content as a whole and seeks to replace it by another content which is intelligible and in certain respects analogous.

"cipher method" - it treats the dream as a king of secret code in which every sign is translated into another sign of known meaning, accordign to an established key. The essential point, then in this procedure is that the work of interpretation is not apploied to the entirety of the dream, but to each portion of the dreamcontent severally as though the dream were a conglomerate in which each fragment calls for special treatment.

- that is to say they are suppressed before they are preceived. p.10

As will be seen, the point is to induce a psychic state which is in some degree analogous, as reagards the distribution of psychic evergy (mobile attention), to teh state of the mind before falling asleep -- and also, of course, to the hypnotic state. On falling asleep the "undesired ideas" emerge owing to teh slachening of a certain arbitrary (adn, of course, also critical) action which is allowed to influence the trend of our ideas; we are accustomed to speak of fatigue as the reason of this slackeningl the merging undesired ideas are changed into visual and auditory images.

p11. In the case of a creative mind, it seems to me the intellect has withdrawn its watchers from the gates, and teh ideas rush in pell-mell and only then does it review and inspect the multitude.
p25. We have found that the dream represents a wish as fulfilled. Our next purppose should be ascertain whether this is a feneral characteristic of drea,s or whether it is only the accidental content of the particular dream.
Chapter3: The dreams are also to fulfill the wishes we have for example, if we are thirsty then we dream of water etc. sexual desire also can be an example.
p34. If we call this peculiarity of dreams -- namely, that they need elucidation -- the phenomenon of distortion in dreams, a second question then arises: what is the origin of this distortion in dreams?
# During sleep one is incapable of finding an adequate expression for one's dream thoughts.

Your opinion that the dream is nonsencse probably signifies merely an inner resistance to its interpretation. Don't let yourself be put off.

Here, as before, what the dream expresses is only my wish that things might be so. It affection (which happened in his dream) does not belong to the latent content, to the thoughts behind teh dream; it stands in opposition to this content; it is calculated to conceal the knowledge conveyed by the interpretation. Probably it precisely its function. The distortion is here shown to be intentional -- it is a means of disguise.
We should then assume that in every human being there exist, as the primary cause of dream formation, two psycis forces (tendencies or systems), one of which forms the wish expressed by the dream, while otehr exercises a censorship over this dream - wish thereby enforcing on it a distortion.
They are wish dreams in so far as every dream emanates from the first instance, while the second instance behaves towards the dream only in a defensive, not in a constructive manner.

Identification is a highly important motive in the mechanism of hyterical symptoms; by thbis means patients are enabled to express in their syptoms not merely their own experiences but the experiences of quite a number of otehr people; they can suffer, as it were for a whole mass of people and fill all the parts of a drama with their won personlaities.
From my essay on the etiology of anxiety neurosis, you will see taht I note coitus interruptus as one of the factors responsible for the development of neytoruc fear.

Islam today
Preface
The Italian Prime Minister voiced what many thought inprivate “Islam was the enemy of Western civilization”
1.
Introduction: Raising Questions
Commentators are already seeing the confrontation in apocalyptic terms and calling it the last crusade.
Some western scholars of Islam talk of many Islams, a “Moroccan Islam”, an “Indian Islam” and so on. This is inaccurate and misleading. There is one Islam only.
How, then are Muslims different ? The answer is that they are not. Islam is sociology. The Prophet’s saying encourage Muslims to greet one another warmly, to avoid gossip and slander , to accept invitations to visit one another. Islam also encourages “social activity, a sense of community, a sense of belonging sense of place.
Jihad: The concept in western literature and usage has come to mean the idea of holy war, of Muslim fanaticism. In fact jihad means struggle, and there are various forms of it; physical confrontation is just one. The hole Phorophet identified the greatest jihad as the struggle to master our passions and instincts.
Islam is seen in the West as an evangelical religion, wishing to spread the message and encourage conversion. This is correct. Muslims are enthusiastic about dawah, the call to Islam.

2:
What is Islam?

AD 610 when Muhammad was 40, he heard voice of angel Gabriel. Prophet was born around 540 AD in Makkah. He married with Khadijah. He had four daughters named Zainab, Ruqayyah, Umm Kalthum and Fatimah. During the Ramadan he was meditating in Hira suddenly Angel came and asked him to read. But he could not read. Khadijah was first female Muslim and Ali was first male one.
The journey in 622 across the desert is crusial event for Muslims. It is called the hijra, which means departure. Even today, the Muslim system of dating years starts with the Prophet’s journey; AD 622 is the first year of the Muslim calendar.
Opening if the fast during Ramadan by eating a date is sunnah.
Muslims don’t allow images or representations if the prophet. The reason is rooed in the history of Islam. As Islam rejected any form of idol worship, Muslims feared that images of the Prophet would soon become objects of worship: nothing must detract from the worship of God.
The message: the holy Quran.
Japanese History period
(17 injunctions)
no significience occured until 645

1. Nara period 710- 794
2. Heian period 794- 1185
3. Kamakura period 1185- 1338
4. Muramachi period 1338- 1573 Edo-- Tokyo
5. Tokugawa period 1603- 1867
(Matthew Perry sailed into Edo bay in 1853
Meiji restoration of 1868
6. Meiji period 1868- 1912 purveyor-- someone who provides food
indispensable- absolutely neccesary

from Kurl Hahn
Victopry comes in leaps and bounds of clever adaptation, the string of successes and compromises through which one creates for oneself a place in the world.
He identified the worst declines as those in fitness, skill and care, self0 discipline, initiative and enterprise, memory and imagination and compassion. Among the unusual assumptions underlying all forms of instruction at Salem was Hahn's conviction that students should experience failure as well as success. They should learn to overcome negative inclinations within themselves and prevail against adversity. He believed, moveover, that students should learn to discipline their own needs and desires for the good of the community. They should realize, through their own experience, the connection between self-discovery and service. He also insisted that true learning required periods of silence and solitude as well as directed activity.

The goal of learning , in his view, was compensatory: to purify the destructive inclinations of the human personality, to redress the imbalances in modern ways of living, to develop each person's disabilities to their maximum potential and to place new found strength in service of those in need.

The center emerged as a discovery of who he really was inside, the gift of suddenly knowing what he had to do, and would do, when he bumped up against his own limitations. It was the scale of values, teh plan of life, the desired future he asserted as his response to adversity.
He came to see that there exosts in everyone a grand passion, an outlandish thirst for adventure, a desire to live boldly and vivdly in the journey through life.
Hahn believed that some separation from the existing human world into the inrensity of a journey -quest, confronting challenges and transforming opportunities for service, could change the balance of power in young people.
THey hoped to discover the combination of challenging experiences that might help young people discover new ways of organizing their lives and working with other people.
The problem of how to educate the whole person cannot be solved without learnign how to civilize human communities, which in turn cannot be done without preparing the entire world society in the arts of living harmoniously at the highest levels of potential activity and understanding. FInally, they engaged in sevice activities, experiencing the value of compassion through direct action on behalf of the community or specific people in need.
Through OUtward Bound, Hahn hoped to foster a deeper intensity of commitment in the rite of passage from youth to adult life. He was intent on creating more dramatic challenges and victories for the young than were available in conventianal forms of schooling.
But at its heart, in every time and place, is Hahn's own center, his conviction that it is possible, even in a relatively short tme to introduce greater balance and compassion into human lives by impelling people into iexperienes which show them they can rise above adversity adn overcome their won defeatism. They can make more of their lives than they thought tehy could and learn to serve others with their strength.
The man's center remains, beckoning like an adventure. Arise from weakness to teach about strength. Turn self-discovery inot acts of compassion. Everywhere defend human decency.
Tao Te ching
8. Great good i ssaid to be like water
sustaining life with no conscious striving
flowing naturally, providing nourishment
found even in places
which desiring man rejects

10
Maintaining unity is virtuous
for the inner world of thought is one
with the external world
of action and of things.

13 Being watchful he had no fear of dangerl
being responsive he had no need of fear.

17
it happened of its own accord
36. That which is soft and supple, may overcome the hard and strong;
38. A true good man is unaware of the good deeds he performs. Conversely a foolish man must try continuously to be good.
40. All things are born of being;
being is born of non-being;
33. Will power may bring perseverance;
but to have tranquility is to endure,
beigin protected for all his days

He whose ideas remain in the world
is present for all time.

38. He who is truly great
does notn upon the surface dwell,
but on what lies beneath.
It is said that the fruit is his concern
rather than the flower.

43. .. The wise man understands full well,
that wordless teaching can take place,
and that actions should occur
without the wish for self-advancement.

53. When the court has adornments in profusion
the fields are full of weeds
and the granaries are bare
55. From constancy, there develops harmony,
and from harmony, enlightenment.

Leap of faith
To the school's credit, uit offered a community service program tutoring non english speaking students in apublic school in Harlem and I volunteered to serve. Initially I was frustrated by my inability to make any meaningful progress with the stedsents many of whom had setious learning disabilities and needed far more support than I or anyone available to them would ever be able to provide. I eventually made some headway but the most important lesson I took away fromt eh experience was just how difficult it is to break the vicious cycle of ignorance and poverty.


One of the goals of the "White revolition" the Shah had advanced in 1963 was ambitious land reform that would redistribute the vast holdings of the rich few to the many rural poor. The Shah had also chjapioned women's rights.
It was not until I started working and living in Jordan that I befan to understand the enormity of this human tragedy.

Mind and mysteries
Mind and matter are two aspects as subject and object of one and the same all-full Brahman, who is neither and yet includes both. Mind precedes matter. This is Vedantic theory. Matter precedes mind. This is scientific theory. A Raja Yogi penetrates through different layers of mind by intense Sadhana. Variety is beauty of creation.
Mind is nothing but a collection of Smskaras. It is nothing but a bundle of habits. It is nothing but a collection of desires arising from contact with different objects. It is also a collection of feelings aroused by worldly botherations. The world is the best teacher or Guru.
Sensation, thought and volition are the threefold functions of the mind. Cognition , desire, voition are the three mental processes. Mind has three states, vi., active, passive and neutral. Mind always wants variety and new sensations. It is disgusted with monotony.

Speed reading
Speed reading page23
the def of reading
1. Recognition: reader;s knowledge of the alphabetic symbols
2. Assimilation: the physical process of perception and scanning
3. Intra - integration: basic understanding derived from the reading material itself awith minimum dependence on past experience, other than knowledge of grammar and vocabulary.
4. Extra - integration: analysis, criticism, appreciation, selection and rejection.
5. Retention: this is the capacity to store the information in memory.
6. Recall: the ability to recover the information from memory storage
7. communication: this represents teh application of the information and may be further broken down into at least 4 categories, which are:
* written communication
* spoken communication
* communication through drawing and the manipulation of objects
* thinking, which is another word for communication with the self;

Preliminary Exercise
Subvocalisation & the Thought- Stream
Generally speaking, subcvocalisation is unnecessary to the adult reader, except perhaps when reading poetry.
A thought-stream is essential for full understanding.
STEP1.
STEP2. count out loud from one to ten repeatedly, whilst reading the page silentl using thought stream. Counting out loud will occupy the motor system so that the mind is unable to subvocalise.
STEP3.
....
C- Speed perception ; pacing ; scanning;

The prince
The Prince page 62 chapter 24

Such as they are, its ethics are those of Machiavellu's contem[oraries; year they cannot be sai to be out of date so long as teh governments of Euarope rely on material rather thatn on moral forces.

The Prince is bestrewn with truths that can be proved at every turn.

IN politics there are no perfectly safe courses; prudence consists in choosing the least dangerous ones.
From whose conduct and fate he drew the moral that it is far better to earn the confidence of the people than to rely on fortresses. Yet in "the prince" the duke is in point of fact cited as a type of the man who rises on the fortune of others, and falls with them; who takes every course that might be expected from a prudent man but the course which will save him; who is prepared for all eventualotoes but the one which happens; and who, when all his anilities fail to carry him through exclains taht it was not his fault but an extraordinary and unforseen fatality.
Its problems are still debatable and interesting, because they are the eternal problems between the ruled and their rulers.
The prince with more than a merely artistic or historucal interest is the incovtrovertible truth that it deals with the great principles which still guide nations and rulers in their relationship with each other and their neighbours.

So to understand the nature of the people it needs to be a prince and to uinderstant dthat if princes it needs to be of the people.

He who has annexed them, if he wishes to hold them has only to bear in mind two considerations: the one, that the family of their former lord is extinguished; the other, that neighter their laws nor their taxes are altered, so that in a very short time they will become entirely one body with the old principality.

... to make himself hte head and defender of his less powerful neighbours and to weaken the more powerful amongst them, taking care that no foreigner as powerful as himself shall, by any accident, get a footing there; for it will always happen tha tsuch a one will be introduced by those who are discontented, either through excess of ambition or through fear as on ehas seen already.

This man abolished the old soldiery, organized the new, gave up old alliances, made new ones; and as he had his own soldiers and allies, on such foundations he was able to build any ediface: thus, whilst he had endured much trouble in acruiting, he had but little in keeping.

Page 30. Para 2.

FOr this reason many consider that a wise prince, when he has the opportunity, ought with craft to foster some animosity against himself, so that, having crushed it, his renown may rise highher.

I must not fail to warn a prince, who by menas of secret favours has acquired a new state, that he must well consider the reasons which induced those to favour him who did so; and if it be not a natural affection towards him, but only discontent with their government, then he will only keep them friendly with great trouble and difficulty, for it will be impossible to satisfy them.

But to enable a prince to form an opinion of his sevatn there is one test which never fails; when you see the servant thinking more of his own interests than of yours, and seeking inwardly his own profit in everything, sucj a man will never make a good servant, nor will you ever be able to trust him; because he who has the state of another in his hands ought never to think of himself, but always of his prince, and never pay any attention to matters in which the prince is not concerned.

Dam against flood. So it happens with fortune, who shows her power where valour has not prepared to resist her, and thither she tuwns her forces where she knows that barriers and defences have not been raised to constrain her.

All this marises from nothing else than wherther or not they conform in their methods to the spirit of the times.

The picture of Doryan Grey
page139 end {{ Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes" ;;;; What is a cynic? A man who know the price of everything, and the value of nothing. "}} {{ When critics disagree the artist is in accord with himself}}

The Picture of Dorian Gray

The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal
the artist is art's aim. No artist tries to prove anything. Vice and virtue are to the artist materials for an art.
The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely.
All art is quite useless.

It is silly of you, for there is only one thing in the world worse
than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins.
Intellect is in itself a mode of exaggeration, and destroys
the harmony of any face.

It is not he who is revealed by the painter; it is rather the painter who,
on the coloured canvas, reveals himself.

"Conscience and cowardice are really the same things, Basil.
Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all."

The only thing he considers of any importance is whether one
believes it oneself.

"Dorian Gray" is to me simply a motive in art. You might see nothing in him.
I see everything in him. He is never more present in my work than
when no image of him is there. He is a suggestion, as I have said,
of a new manner. I find him in the curves of certain lines,
in the loveliness and subtleties of certain colours. "That is all."

Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love:
it is the faithless who know love's tragedies."

In the wild struggle for existence, we want to have something that endures, and so we fill our minds with rubbish and facts, in the silly hope of jeeoing our place.

There is no such thing as a good influenjce, Mr. Gray. All influence is immoral--immoral form the scientific point of view."
"Why>"
"Because to influence a person is to give him one's own soul. He does not think his natureal thoughts, or burn with his natural passions. His virtues are not real to him. His sins, if there are such things as sins, are borrowed. HE becomes an echo of some one else's music, an actor of a part that has not been written for him. The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly-- that is what each of us is here for. People are afraid of themselves, nowdays. They have forgotten the highest of all duties, the duty that one owes to one's self. Of course they are charitable. They feed the hungry and clothe the beggar. But their own souls starve, and are naked. Courage has gone out of our race. Perhaps we never really had it. The terror of society, whichis the basis of morals the terror of God which is the secret of religion-- these are the two things that govern us. And yet--"

The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself, with desire for what its mostrous laws have made monstrous and unlawful.
Music had stirred him like that. Music had troubled him many times. But music was not articulate. It was not a new, but rather another chaos, that it created in us. Words! Mere words! How terrible they were? How clear, and vivd, and cruel! One could not esceape from htem.

You are quite right to do that" he murmured. "Nothing can cure the soul but the sense, just as nothing can cure the sense but the soul."

Because you have the most marvellous youth, and youth is the one thing worth having.

... People say sometimes that beauty is only superficial. That may be so, but at least it is not so superficial as thouht is. To me, beauty is the wonder of wonders. The true mystery of the world is the visible, nothe invisible.

Time is jealous of you, and wars against your lilies and your roses.

Live! LIve the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations! Be afraid of nothing...

Only difference between a caprice and a lifelong passionis that the caprice lasts a little longer."

The scarlet would pass away form his lips and the gold steal from his hair. The life that was to make his soul would mar his body. He would become dreadful, hideous, adn uncouth.

Young men want to be faithful,and are not; old men want to be faithless, and cannot; that is all one can say."

Well, the way of paradoxes is the way of truth. To tes reality we must see it on hte tight rope. When the verities become actobats, we can judge them.

Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.

Never marry at all, DOrian. Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious: both are disappointed.

"SEARCH FOR BEAUTY BEING THE REAL SECRET OF LIFE."

Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect-- simply a confession of failure. Faithfulness! I must analyze it some day. The passionfor property is in it. There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might puck them up.

"Then he asked me if I wrote for any of the newspapers. I told him I never even read them. He seemed terribly disappointed at that, and confided to me that all the dramatic critics were in a conspiracy against him, and that they were every one of them to be bought. "

From her little head to her little feet, she is absolutely and entirely divine.

Ordinary people waited till life disclosed to them its secrets, but to the few, to the elect, the mysteries of life were revealed before the veil was drawn away. Sometimes this was the effect of art, and chiefly of theart of literature, which dealt immediately with the passions and the intellect.

Was the soul a shadow seated in the house of sin? Or was the body really in the soul, as Giordano Bruno thought?

She was free in her prison of passion!!

Her trust makes me faithful, her belief makes me good.

To be good is to be in harmony with one's self.

If this girl can give a soul to those who have lived without one, if she can create the sense of beauty in people whose lives have been sordid and ugly, if she can strip them of their selfishness and lend them tears for sorrows that are not their own, whe is worthy of all your adoration, wortthy of the adoration of the world.

There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating-- people who know absolutely everything , adn people who know absolutely nothing.

When we blame ourselves, we feel that no one else has a right to blame us. It is the confession, not hte priest, that gives us absolution.

They make one believe in thereality of the things we all play with, such as romance, passion, and love.

Ethernal youth, infinite passion, pleasures subtle and secret, wild joys and wilder sins-- he was to have all these things.

Perhaps one should never put one's worhip into words.
Things that he had dimlly dreamt of were suddenly made real to him. Things of which he had never dreamed were gradualy revealed.

The life of the senses was described in the terms of mystical philosophy.
It was to have its sevice of the intellect, certainly, yet it was never to accept any theory or system that would involve the sacrifice of any mode of passionate experience. Its aim, indeed, was to be experience itself, and not hte fruits of experience, sweet or bitter as they might be.

BUt it was teach man to concentrate himself upon the moments of a life that is itslef but a moment.

He knew that the senses, no less than the soul, have their spiritual mysteries to reveal.

There were moments when he looked on evil simply as a mode through which he could realize his conception of the beautiful.

Sin is a thing that writes itself across a man's face. It cannot be concealed.

There was the madness of pride in every word he uttered.

There are moments, psychologists tell us, when the passion for sin, or for what the world calls sin, so dominates a nature that every fibre of the body, as every cell of the brain , seems to be instinct with fearful impulses. Men and women at such moments lose the freedom of their will.

In the common world of fact the wicjked were not punished, nor the good rewarded. Success was given to the strong, failure thrust upon the weak. That was all.

Their strong passions must either bruise or bend. They either slay the man, or themselves die. Shallow sorrows and shallow loves live on. The loves and sorrows that are great are destroyed by their own plenitude.

Knowledge would be fatal. It is hte uncertainty that charms one. A mist makes things wonderful.

The world as I see
In times of crises people are generally blind to everything outside their immediate necessities.
A man can do as he will, but not will as he will.
He has only been his big brain by mistake; a backbone was all he needed.

The fairest thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science.

Enouth for me the mystery of the erernity of life, and the inkling of the marvellous structure of reality, together with the single-hearted endeavour to comprehend a portion, be it never so tiny, of the reason that manifests itself in nature.

I most seriously believe that one does people the best sevice by giving them some elecating work to do and thus indirectly elevating them.

The individual is what he is and has the significance that he has not so muck in virtue of his individuality, but rather as a member of a great human society, which directs his material and spiritual existence from the cradle to the grave.

Besides, one always cuts a poor figure if one complains about others who are struggling for their place in teh sun too after their own fashion.

All this is put into your hands as your inheritance in order that you may receive it, honor it, add to it, and one day faithfully hand it on to your children. Thuis do we mortals achieve immortality in hte permanent things which we create in common.

A man's ethical behaviour should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religous basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restained by fear and punishment and hope of reward after death.

Only one who has devoted his life to similar can have a vivid realization of what has inspired these men and given them the strength to remain true to their purpose in spite of countless failures. It is cosmic religious feeling that gives a man strength of this sort. A contemporaru has said, not unjustly, tha tin this materialistic age of ours the sertious scientific workers are the only progoundly religious people.

Thomas Sir More
Why should pain and suffering be allowed to exist? He asks, then answers -- " The sun shines on good and bad. God often gives evil people good fortune just in order to call tehm by kindness to him. Then, if this does not succeed, HE gives them sorrow. Sometimes those in prosperity cannot creep to GOD, while in tribulation they run forward to him apace."


Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Walter Kaufman

Faith in God is dead as a matter of cultural fact, and any meaning of life in the sense of supernatural purpose is gone. Now it is up to man to give his life meaning by raisin himself above teh animals and the all-too-human. Our so-called human nature is precisely what we should do well to overcome; and the man who has overcome it Zarathustra calls the overman.

Nietzsche wants no believers but like Socrates, aims to help others to find themselves adn surpass him.

And if you cannot be saints of knowledge,a t least be its warriors. They are the companions and forerunners of such sainthood. Let your work be struggle. Let your peace be a victory. Not your pity but your courage far saved the unfortunate. page 47

Verily man gave themselves all their good and evil. Veruly they did not take it they did not find it not did it come to them as a voice from heaven. Only man placed values in things to preserve himself- he alone created a meaning for things a human meaning. Therefore he calls himself "man" which means: teh esteemer. page59

Thus speaks the fool: " Association with other people corrupts one's character - especially one has none. "

Today you are still suffering form the many being one: today your courage and your hopes are still whole. But the time will come when solitude will make you weary, when your pride will double up and your courage gnash its teeth. And you will cry out " I am alone" The time will no longer be in sight and that which seems low will be all too near; even what seems sublim to you will frighten you like a ghost. And you will cry out " All is false",

A little revenge is more human than no revenge.

Remain faithful to the earth my brothers, with the power of your virtue. Let your gift giving love and knowledge serve the meaning of earth. Thus I beg and beseech you. Do not let them fly away from earthly things and beat with their wings against erenal walls. page 76

God is conjecture; but I desire that your conjecture should be limited by what is thinkable. Could you think a GOD? But this is waht the will to truth should mean to you: that eveything be cahnged into twhat is thinkable for man visible for man, feeble by man. You should think through your own senses to their consequences. And what you have called worl, that shall be created only by you: your reason, your image, your will, your love shall thus be realized. page86

Whatever in me has feeling, suffers and is in proson but my will always comes to me as my liberator and joy-bringer. Willing liberates: that is the true teaching of will and liberty.

And if a friend does you evil then say: " I forgive you what you did to me; but that you have done it to yourself - how could I forgive that?" Thus speaks all great love; it overcomes even forgiveness adn pity.

And now are you angry with me because I teach that there is no reward and paymaster? And verily, I do not even teach that virtue is its own reward. Alas, that is my sorrow: they have lied reward and punishment into the foundation of things and now also into the foundation of your souls, you are virtuous. page 94

Alas, I often frew weary of the spirit when I found that even the rabble had spirit.

I do not wish to be mixed up and confused with these preachers of equality. For, to me justice speaks thus:" Men are not equal." Nor shall they become equal. What would my love of the overman be if I spoke otherwise?
The struggle and inequality are present even in beauty, and also war for power and more power: that is what he teaches us here in the plainest parable. page 101

Like the sail, trembling with the voilence of the spirit, my wisdom goes over the sea- my wild wisdom.

Lord of the rings
The hobbit : Page38
Fellowship of the Rings
All wehave to decide is hwat to do with the time that is given, us.
because he began his ownership of the ____ so. With Pity.
All that is gold does not glidder,
NOt all those who wander are lost;
He bitterluy regretted his foolishness, and reproached himself for weakness of will; for he now perceived that in putting on the Ring he obeyed not his own desire but the commanding wish of his enemies.
The future good or ill, was not forgotten, but ceased to have any power over the present.
One good turn deserves another.
NO need to brood on what tomorrow may bring;

What is Enlightenment?" Immanuel Kant

-Therefore there are only a few who have pursued a firm path and have succeeded in escaping from immaturity by their own cultivation of the mind.
-But it is more nearly possible for a public to enlighten itself: this is even inescapable if only the public is given its freedom. For there will always be some people who think for themselves, even among the self-appointed guardians of the great mass who, after having thrown off the yoke of immaturity themselves, will spread about them the spirit of a reasonable estimate of their own value and of the need for every man to think for himself
-All that is required for this enlightenment is freedom; and particularly the least harmful of all that may be called freedom, namely, the freedom for man to make public use of his reason in all matters.
-he pastor: Don't argue, believe! (Only a single lord in the world says: Argue, as much as you want to and about what you please, but obey!

Your personality and YOU (Sarah Splaver)

The brain is tangible. It consists of masses of nerve tissues, the vast bulk of which is housef within the skiull. The mind however is intangible. THe mind is made up all your mental processes - your thoughts, your reasoning your imagination your feelings your attitudes your memories your dreams your preceptions your motivations and all of your other varied mental activities and all of your controls which you consciously or unconsciously exerciese over these mental processes.

It is most important that you establish the habit of going steady with study.
Learning requires effort. Regular periodic.
Leartning requires reinforcement. To learn to acquire knowledge to remember we must stenghten these synaptic connections. This strength comes from reinforcement through regular study sessions.
Lasting learning, the kind of learning which will saty with you for many years is the result of proper periodic studying.
School is learning not just for the taking and passing of tests.
Planning is foundation of proper study habits.

There are number of diffeerent mental abilities. Of special concern to you for educational and career planning purposes are the six primary mental abilities.
1. verbal comprehension ability: is the power to grasp teh meaning of what you hear and what you read
2. word fluency ability : if you are superior word fluency ability you are able to express yourself readily and skillfully in writing and speaking.
3. spacial ability: is the capacity to see an object in all of its dimensions some people are able to look at teh drawing of a structure and visualize it in all of its height depth and breath.
4. numerical ability: working with numbers.
5. reasoning ability:is facility which enables you to delve into problems and solve them logically.
6. memory :

EVERY CHILD NEEDS TO FEEL THAT HE IS LOVED.
Although they react to teh love which is bestowedd upon them with joy laughter ahugs kisses and otehr indicidual responses, they must develop and griw before they inwardly feel the emotion of love toward trhose who love them. Thus the child develops from being a RECIEVER OF LOVER, one who needs very mich to be loved, to a GIVER OF LOVE, one who creats love within himself and can give this love to his mother and father.

In OTHELLO, Shakespeare refers to jealosy as "the green-eyed monster which doth mock the meat it feeds on". Bottling up your emotions within you however can be a great threat and very damaging to your health. As emotional pressure rise if they are not released in awholesome fashion they may bring on a dangerious outburst or an emotional explosion injurious to teh person himself and often too to innocent victims in his environment.

Escape MECHANISMS.
- POSTPHONEMENT
- FANTASY is an imaginary state wherein all desires are delicered and all distresses disappear. Daydreaming is popular form of fantasy. (excessive daydraming is bad) It becomes detrimental when daydreamer receives so much pleasure from imaginary events taht these replace the need for real accomplishments and real action.
- etc

"God gives me the serenity to accept the things O cannot change
The courage to change the things I can,
And the wisdom to know the difference."


The "why's"' of white lies
The white lie, in a way is a type of tactful talk diplomatically designed to soothe the feelings of the person at whom it is directed. Whereas slander accuses and abuses the while lie eases and appeases.

Success is one of the most misused words in the English language. Success is self-fulfillment. What is sefl-fulfillment? It is that inner glow, that personal gratification, which comes to you when you know that you have done somehting well and that what you have done has seved a useful purpose.

Essentially education is search for TRUTH, the search for knowledge to enable us to live better and fuller lives. "Veritas" the latin word for "truth" is firmly entrenched in teh mottoes of colleges and universities throughout the nation.

Mein Kampf by A.Hitler
Mein Kampf

-When I look back over so many years and try to judge the results of that experience I find two very significant facts standing out clearly before my mind.
-To study history means to search for and discover the forces that are the causes of those results which appear before our eyes as historical events.
-World history became more and more an inexhaustible source for the understanding of contemporary historical events, which means politics. Therefore I will not "learn" politics but let politics teach me.
And a meagre morsel indeed it was, not even sufficient to still the hunger which I constantly felt. That hunger was the faithful guardian which never left me but took part in everything I did.
-In the case of such a person the hard struggle through which he passes often destroys his normal human sympathy.His own fight for existence kills his sensibility for the misery of those who have been left behind.
-The man who has never been in the clutches of that crushing viper can never know what its poison is.
-I have had actual experience of all this in hundreds of cases. At first I was disgusted and indignant; but later on I came to recognize the whole tragedy of their misfortune and to understand the profound causes of it. They were the unhappy victims of evil circumstances.
- Even in those days I already saw that there was a two-fold method by which alone it would be possible to bring about an amelioration of these conditions. This method is: first, to create better fundamental conditions of social development by establishing a profound feeling for social responsibilities among the public; second, to combine this feeling for social responsibilities with a ruthless determination to prune away all excrescences which are incapable of being improved.
-Just as Nature concentrates its greatest attention, not to the maintenance of what already exists but on the selective breeding of offspring in order to carry on the species, so in human life also it is less a matter of artificially improving the existing generation - which, owing to human characteristics, is impossible in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred - and more a matter of securing from the very start a better road for future development.
- I can fight only for something that I love. I can love only what I respect. And in order to respect a thing I must at least have some knowledge of it
- He believes that he has acquired knowledge, whereas the truth is that every increase in such ‘knowledge’ draws him more and more away from real life, until he finally ends up in some sanatorium or takes to politics and becomes a parliamentary deputy.
Such a person never succeeds in turning his knowledge to practical account when the opportune moment arrives; for his mental equipment is not ordered with a view to meeting the demands of everyday life.
- For to safeguard the loyalty and confidence of the people is as much in the interests of the nation as to safeguard public health.
- so that it was at that time possible to persuade the masses that this ridiculous measure in which the most sacred claims of the working-classes were being granted represented a diabolical plan to weaken their fighting power in this easy way and, if possible, to paralyse it. One will not be astonished at the success of these allegations if one remembers what a small measure of thinking power the broad masses possess.
- A time came when I no longer passed blindly along the street of the mighty city, as I had done in the early days, but now with my eyes open not only to study the buildings but also the human beings.
- Generally speaking a man should not publicly take part in politics before he has reached the age of thirty, though, of course, exceptions must be made in the case of those who are naturally gifted with extraordinary political abilities.
- A man must first acquire a fund of general ideas and fit them together so as to form an organic structure of personal thought or outlook on life - a Weltanschhauung.
- If these pre-requisite conditions are not fulfilled, and if a man should enter political life without this equipment, he will run a twofold risk. In the first place, he may find during the course of events that the stand which he originally took in regard to some essential question was wrong. He will now have to abandon his former position or else stick to it against his better knowledge and riper wisdom and after his reason and convictions have already proved it untenable.
-I shall subsequently deal more fully with the problem to which this kind of parliamentary vermin give rise.
When a man has reached his thirtieth year he has still a great deal to learn. That is obvious. But henceforward what he learns will principally be an amplification of his basic ideas; it will be fitted in with them organically so as to fill up the framework of the fundamental Weltanschhauung which he already possesses. What he learns anew will not imply the abandonment of principles already held, but rather a deeper knowledge of those principles. And thus his colleagues will never have the discomforting feeling that they have been hitherto falsely led by him.
- His successors had neither the ability nor the will-power necessary for the task they had to face.
- The setting up of a representative parliamentary body, without insisting on the preliminary that only one language should be used in all public intercourse under the State, was the first great blow to the predominance of the German element in the Dual Monarchy.
- The danger which exists in these slumbering separatist instincts can be rendered more or less innocuous only through centuries of common education, common traditions and common interests.
- By far the most effective branch of political education, which in this connection is best expressed by the word ‘propaganda’, is carried on by the Press. The Press is the chief means employed in the process of political ‘enlightenment’. It represents a kind of school for adults. This educational activity, however, is not in the hands of the State but in the clutches of powers which are partly of a very inferior character. While still a young man in Vienna I had excellent opportunities for coming to know the men who owned this machine for mass instruction, as well as those who supplied it with the ideas it distributed.
- As a contrast to this kind of democracy we have the German democracy, which is a true democracy; for here the leader is freely chosen and is obliged to accept full responsibility for all his actions and omissions. The problems to be dealt with are not put to the vote of the majority; but they are decided upon by the individual, and as a guarantee of responsibility for those decisions he pledges all he has in the world and even his life.
- If a government uses the instruments of power in its hands for the purpose of leading a people to ruin, then rebellion is not only the right but also the duty of every individual citizen.
The question of whether and when such a situation exists cannot be answered by theoretical dissertations but only by the exercise of force, and it is success that decides the issue.
- Generally speaking, we must not forget that the highest aim of human existence is not the maintenance of a State of Government but rather the conservation of the race.
- He had a rare gift of insight into human nature and he was very careful not to take men as something better than they were in reality. He based his plans on the practical possibilities which human life offered him, whereas Schönerer had only little discrimination in that respect. All ideas that this Pan-German had were right in the abstract, but he did not have the forcefulness or understanding necessary to put his ideas across to the broad masses. He was not able to formulate them so that they could be easily grasped by the masses, whose powers of comprehension are limited and will always remain so. Therefore all Schönerer’s knowledge was only the wisdom of a prophet and he never could succeed in having it put into practice.
- This lack of insight into human nature led him to form a wrong estimate of the forces behind certain movements and the inherent strength of old institutions.
- In all this Dr. Lueger was the opposite of Schönerer. His profound knowledge of human nature enabled him to form a correct estimate of the various social forces and it saved him from under-rating the power of existing institutions. And it was perhaps this very quality which enabled him to utilize those institutions as a means to serve the purposes of his policy.
He saw only too clearly that, in our epoch, the political fighting power of the upper classes is quite insignificant and not at all capable of fighting for a great new movement until the triumph of that movement be secured. Thus he devoted the greatest part of his political activity to the task of winning over those sections of the population whose existence was in danger and fostering the militant spirit in them rather than attempting to paralyse it. He was also quick to adopt all available means for winning the support of long-established institutions, so as to be able to derive the greatest possible advantage for his movement from those old sources of power.
-. His extremely wise attitude towards the Catholic Church rapidly won over the younger clergy in such large numbers that the old Clerical Party was forced to retire from the field of action or else, which was the wiser course, join the new Party, in the hope of gradually winning back one position after another.
- A man who fights only for his own existence has not much left over for the service of the community.
- Mass meetings in public became more and more rare, though these are the only means of exercising a really effective influence on the people; because here the influence comes from direct personal contact and in this way the support of large sections of the people can be obtained.
- The wrong impression created by the Press was no longer corrected by personal contact with the people through public meetings, whereby the individual representatives might have given a true account of their activities.
- The task of the pen must always be that of presenting the theoretical concepts which motivate such changes. The force which has ever and always set in motion great historical avalanches of religious and political movements is the magic power of the spoken word.
- The doom of a nation can be averted only by a storm of glowing passion; but only those who are passionate themselves can arouse passion in others. It is only through the capacity for passionate feeling that chosen leaders can wield the power of the word which, like hammer blows, will open the door to the hearts of the people.
- To a political leader the religious teachings and practices of his people should be sacred and inviolable.
-If the leaders had known that, for psychological reasons alone, it is not expedient to place two or more sets of adversaries before the masses - since that leads to a complete splitting up of their fighting strength - they would have concentrated the full and undivided force of their attack against a single adversary.
-But even though there is much that can really be said against the various religious denominations, political leaders must not forget that the experience of history teaches us that no purely political party in similar circumstances ever succeeded in bringing about a religious reformation.
- It was nationalist, but unfortunately it paid too little heed to the social problem, and thus it failed to gain the support of the masses.
- The Christian-Socialists grasped the significance of the social question; but they adopted the wrong principles in their struggle against Jewry, and they utterly failed to appreciate the value of the national idea as a source of political energy.
- The crimes which the House of Habsburg committed against Italian freedom and independence during several centuries were too grave to be forgiven, even with the best of goodwill.
- Nature must now step in once more and select those who are to survive, or else man will help himself by artificially preventing his own increase, with all the fatal consequences for the race and the species which have been already mentioned. (darvinism, he strongly supports “survival” concept since he thinks that it will challenge the nature of the race and make the race even more stronger. I mean nature makes it, nature…)
-internal colonization theory
-Therefore the only possibility which Germany had of carrying a sound territorial policy into effect was that of acquiring new territory in Europe itself. Colonies cannot serve this purpose as long as they are not suited for settlement by Europeans on a large scale. In the nineteenth century it was no longer possible to acquire such colonies by peaceful means. Therefore any attempt at such a colonial expansion would have meant an enormous military struggle.
-If we consider the question of what those forces actually are which are necessary to the creation and preservation of a State, we shall find that they are: The capacity and readiness to sacrifice the individual to the common welfare. That these qualities have nothing at all to do with economics can be proved by referring to the simple fact that man does not sacrifice himself for material interests. In other words, he will die for an ideal but not for a business
- We were fighting for our bread; but the English declared that they were fighting for ‘freedom’, and not at all for their own freedom. Oh, no, but for the freedom of the small nations.
- They never understood that as soon as man is called upon to struggle for purely material causes he will avoid death as best he can; for death and the enjoyment of the material fruits of a victory are quite incompatible concepts. The frailest woman will become a heroine when the life of her own child is at stake. And only the will to save the race and native land or the State, which offers protection to the race, has in all ages been the urge which has forced men to face the weapons of their enemies.

Therefore when force is employed success is dependent on the consistent manner in which it is used. This persistence, however, is nothing less than the product of definite spiritual convictions. Every form of force that is not supported by a spiritual backing will be always indecisive and uncertain.
Mendacious fatuous
. Despite all views to the contrary, this honour does actually exist, or rather it will have to exist; for a nation without honour will sooner or later lose its freedom and independence.
-What, for example, should we say of a poster which purported to advertise some new brand of soap by insisting on the excellent qualities of the competitive brands? We should naturally shake our heads
detrimental.
- Propaganda must be limited to a few simple themes and these must be represented again and again. Here, as in innumerable other cases, perseverance is the first and most important condition of success.
Such people grow sick and tired of everything. They always long for change and will always be incapable of putting themselves in the position of picturing the wants of their less callous fellow-creatures in their immediate neighbourhood, let alone trying to understand them.
- The moment the organization and message of a propagandist movement begins to be orientated according to their tastes it becomes incoherent and scattered.
- But I was a being without a name, one among eight millions. Hence it was better for me to keep my mouth shut and do my duty as well as I could in the position to which I had been assigned.
-? And so I accepted my misfortune in silence, realizing that this was the only thing to be done and that personal suffering was nothing when compared with the misfortune of one’s country.
-. I spent whole days pondering on the problem of what could be done, but unfortunately every project had to give way before the hard fact that I was quite unknown and therefore did not have even the first pre-requisite necessary for effective action. Later on I shall explain the reasons why I could not decide to join any of the parties then in existence.
- The attention which I had given to economic problems during my earlier years was more or less confined to considerations arising directly out of the social problem.
- The significance of a political philosopher does not depend on the practical success of the plans he lays down but rather on their absolute truth and the influence they exert on the progress of mankind. If it were otherwise, the founders of religions could not be considered as the greatest men who have ever lived, because their moral aims will never be completely or even approximately carried out in practice. Even that religion which is called the Religion of Love is really no more than a faint reflex of the will of its sublime Founder. But its significance lies in the orientation which it endeavoured to give to human civilization, and human virtue and morals.
- I was now able to confirm what I had hitherto merely felt, namely, that I had a talent for public speaking. My voice had become so much better that I could be well understood, at least in all parts of the small hall where the soldiers assembled.
- I am able to state that my talks were successful. During the course of my lectures I have led back hundreds and even thousands of my fellow countrymen to their people and their fatherland. I ‘nationalized’ these troops and by so doing I helped to restore general discipline.
Here again I made the acquaintance of several comrades whose thought ran along the same lines as my own and who later became members of the first group out of which the new movement developed.
- The fact that I was poor and without resources could, in my opinion, be the easiest to bear. But the fact that I was utterly unknown raised a more difficult problem. I was only one of the millions which Chance allows to exist or cease to exist, whom even their next-door neighbours will not consent to know. Another difficulty arose from the fact that I had not gone through the regular school curriculum.
- For just as bodily ailments can be cured only when their origin has been diagnosed, so also political disease can be treated only when it has been diagnosed. It is obvious of course that the external symptoms of any disease can be more readily detected than its internal causes, for these symptoms strike the eye more easily.
-. It was simply and exclusively limited to the production of pure knowledge and paid little attention to the development of practical ability. Still less attention was given to the development of individual character, in so far as this is ever possible. And hardly any attention at all was paid to the development of a sense of responsibility, to strengthening the will and the powers of decision. The result of this method was to produce erudite people who had a passion for knowing everything.
- Generally, readers of the Press can be classified into three groups:
First, those who believe everything they read;
Second, those who no longer believe anything;
Third, those who critically examine what they read and form their judgments accordingly.
Numerically, the first group is by far the strongest, being composed of the broad masses of the people. Intellectually, it forms the simplest portion of the nation. It cannot be classified according to occupation but only into grades of intelligence.
-The third group is easily the smallest, being composed of real intellectuals whom natural aptitude and education have taught to think for themselves and who in all things try to form their own judgments, while at the same time carefully sifting what they read.
-. That is one of the results of our defective education, which turns the youth away from the instinctive dictates of Nature, pumps into them a certain amount of knowledge without however being able to bring them to what is the supreme act of knowing. To this end diligence and goodwill are of no avail, if innate understanding fail. This final knowledge at which man must aim is the understanding of causes which are instinctively perceived.
In the case of the man there is the additional fact that he frequently is unfortunate enough to run up against this danger when he is under the influence of alcohol.
. Prostitution, therefore, can only be really seriously tackled if, by means of a radical social reform, early marriage is made easier than hitherto. This is the first preliminary necessity for the solution of this problem.
Our system of education entirely loses sight of the fact that in the long run a healthy mind can exist only in a healthy body. This statement, with few exceptions, applies particularly to the broad masses of the nation.



But if religious teaching and religious faith were once accepted by the broad masses as active forces in their lives, then the absolute authority of the doctrines of faith would be the foundation of all practical effort. There may be a few hundreds of thousands of superior men who can live wisely and intelligently without depending on the general standards that prevail in everyday life, but the millions of others cannot do so. But the greatest damage of all has come from the practice of debasing religion as a means that can be exploited to serve political interests, or rather commercial interests. The impudent and loud-mouthed liars who do this make their profession of faith before the whole world in stentorian tones so that all poor mortals may hear - not that they are ready to die for it if necessary but rather that they may live all the better. They are ready to sell their faith for any political quid pro quo.
The average man or woman could not have felt a wave of enthusiasm surging within the breast when, for example, at the turn of the century, a princess in uniform and on horseback had the soldiers file past her on parade. Those high circles had apparently no idea of the impression which such a parade made on the minds of ordinary people; else such unfortunate occurrences would not have taken place. The sentimental humanitarianism - not always very sincere - which was professed in those high circles was often more repulsive than attractive. When, for instance, the Princess X condescended to taste the products of a soup kitchen and found them excellent, as usual, such a gesture might have made an excellent impression in times long past, but on this occasion it had the opposite effect to what was intended.
??? The only difference that can exist within the species must be in the various degrees of structural strength and active power, in the intelligence, efficiency, endurance, etc., with which the individual specimens are endowed. It would be impossible to find a fox which has a kindly and protective disposition towards geese, just as no cat exists which has a friendly disposition towards mice.????

--He who would live must fight. He who does not wish to fight in this world, where permanent struggle is the law of life, has not the right to exist.
Such a saying may sound hard; but, after all, that is how the matter really stands.

--Whenever human activity is directed exclusively to the service of the instinct for self-preservation it is called theft or usury, robbery or burglary, etc.
This mental attitude, which forces self-interest to recede into the background in favour of the common weal, is the first prerequisite for any kind of really human civilization.

--Posterity will not remember those who pursued only their own individual interests, but it will praise those heroes who renounced their own happiness.

It is always more difficult to fight successfully against Faith than against knowledge. Love is less subject to change than respect. Hatred is more lasting than mere aversion. And the driving force which has brought about the most tremendous revolutions on this earth has never been a body of scientific teaching which has gained power over the masses, but always a devotion which has inspired them, and often a kind of hysteria which has urged them to action. Whoever wishes to win over the masses must know the key that will open the door to their hearts. It is not objectivity, which is a feckless attitude, but a determined will, backed up by force, when necessary.
(4) The soul of the masses can be won only if those who lead the movement for that purpose are determined not merely to carry through the positive struggle for their own aims but are also determined to destroy the enemy that opposes them.
--The thing that matters here is not the vision of the man of genius who created the great idea but rather the success which his apostles achieve in shaping the expression of this idea so as to bring it home to the minds of the masses.
-- Human progress and human cultures are not founded by the multitude. They are exclusively the work of personal genius and personal efficiency.
-- The will to be a leader is not a sufficient qualification for leadership. For the leader must have the other necessary qualities. Among these qualities will-power and energy must be considered as more serviceable than the intellect of a genius. The most valuable association of qualities is to be found in a combination of talent, determination and perseverance.
-- A movement can become great only if the unhampered development of its internal strength be safeguarded and steadfastly augmented, until victory over all its competitors be secured.


The will to be a leader is not a sufficient qualification for leadership. For the leader must have the other necessary qualities. Among these qualities will-power and energy must be considered as more serviceable than the intellect of a genius. The most valuable association of qualities is to be found in a combination of talent, determination and perseverance.

. A business man who has been in charge of a great firm for forty years and who has completely ruined it through his mismanagement is not the kind of person one would recommend for the founding of a new firm.
Because this concept is so indefinite from the practical viewpoint, it gives rise to various interpretations and thus people can appeal to it all the more easily as a sort of personal recommendation. Whenever such a vague concept, which is subject to so many interpretations, is admitted into a political movement it tends to break up the disciplined solidarity of the fighting forces. No such solidarity can be maintained if each individual member be allowed to define for himself what he believes and what he is willing to do.
He was like one of the ascetic characters of the classical era and was at the same time that kind of straightforward German for whom the saying ‘Better dead than a slave’ is not an empty phrase but a veritable heart’s cry.
The völkisch belief holds that humanity must have its ideals, because ideals are a necessary condition of human existence itself.