Categoria: BTG XLVIII
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B1206
B1205 B1207 [BTG XLVIII From the Author, p. 1206] “Thanks merely to the likeness, which has just struck you, between the face of the chauffeur and the face of the drunkard you bumped into last year when you were returning somewhat tipsy yourself from a rowdy birthday party, you notice that the accident on the…
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B1193
B1192 B1194 [BTG XLVIII From the Author, p. 1193] Continuing this analogy between a typical contemporary man, with his thoughts, feelings, and body, and a hackney carriage, horse, and coachman, we can clearly see that in each of the parts composing both organizations there must have been formed and there must exist its own separate…
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B1194
B1193 B1195 [BTG XLVIII From the Author, p. 1194] Although he himself is from the country and has remained as ignorant as his fellow rustics, yet rubbing shoulders, owing to his profession, with people of various positions and education, picking up from them, by bits here and bits there, a variety of expressions embodying various…
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B1195
B1194 B1196 [BTG XLVIII From the Author, p. 1195] He tries to appear imposing, wears a beard, and if he is thin pads himself out to appear more important. The totality of the manifestations of the feeling-localization in a man and the whole system of its functioning correspond perfectly to the horse of the hackney…
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B1196
B1195 B1197 [BTG XLVIII From the Author, p. 1196] It must further be added that although the coachman has a very feeble understanding of his duties, he can nevertheless, even though only a little, think logically; and remembering tomorrow, he either from fear of losing his job or from the desire of receiving a reward,…
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B1197
B1196 B1198 [BTG XLVIII From the Author, p. 1197] In the absence of any shocks whatsoever while going along such roads, no uniform greasing of all its parts occurs, and some of them consequently must inevitably rust and cease to fulfill the action intended for them. A cart goes easily as a rule if its…
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B1198
B1197 B1199 [BTG XLVIII From the Author, p. 1198] And so, all that has been said about the separate parts of that organization of which, taken as a whole, a hackney carriage consists can be fully applied also to the general organization of the common presence of a man. Owing to the absence among contemporary…
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B1199
B1198 B1200 [BTG XLVIII From the Author, p. 1199] Thanks to what is called the “system of education of the rising generation” which at the present time has already been completely fixed in the life of man and which consists singly and solely in training the pupils, by means of constant repetition to the point…
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B1200
B1199 B1201 [BTG XLVIII From the Author, p. 1200] It is possible, however, that in its locked-in life the horse does nevertheless learn some form of relationship with the coachman and that even, perhaps, it is familiar with some “language”; but the trouble is, that the coachman does not know this and does not even…
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B1201
B1200 B1202 [BTG XLVIII From the Author, p. 1201] Strictly speaking he cannot always do even this, because the reins in general are made of materials that react to various atmospheric phenomena: for example, during a pouring rain they swell and contract; and in heat, the contrary; thereby changing their effect upon the horse’s automatized…
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B1202
B1201 B1203 [BTG XLVIII From the Author, p. 1202] It was as follows: “For the definition of man, considered from our point of view, neither anatomical, nor physiological, nor psychological, contemporary knowledge of his symptoms can assist us; since they are inherent in one degree or another in every man and consequently apply equally to…
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B1203
B1202 B1204 [BTG XLVIII From the Author, p. 1203] This experimentally proved categorical affirmation of the Institute-for-the-Harmonious-Development-of-Man, namely, that the ordinary man can do nothing and that everything does itself in him and through him, coincides with what is said of man by contemporary “exact-positive-science.” Contemporary “exact-positive-science” says that a man is a very complex…
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B1204
B1203 B1205 [BTG XLVIII From the Author, p. 1204] In the presences of average people what they call will is exclusively only the resultant of desires. Real will is a sign of a very high degree of Being in comparison with the Being of the ordinary man. But only those people who possess such Being…
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B1205
B1204 B1206 [BTG XLVIII From the Author, p. 1205] “In short, from every point of view, you are fully deserving of imitation, and a man to be envied. “In the morning you wake up under the impression of some oppressive dream. “Your slightly depressed state, that dispersed on awakening, has nevertheless left its mark. “A…
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B1192
B1191 B1193 [BTG XLVIII From the Author, p. 1192] A man as a whole with all his separately concentrated and functioning localizations, that is to say, his formed and independently educated “personalities,” is almost exactly comparable to that organization for conveying a passenger, which consists of a carriage, a horse, and a coachman. It must…
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B1207
B1206 B1208 [BTG XLVIII From the Author, p. 1207] “You go to the phone and the girl connects you with the wrong number. “You ring again, and get the same number. Some man informs you that you are bothering him, you tell him it is not your fault, and what with one word and another,…
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B1208
B1207 B1209 [BTG XLVIII From the Author, p. 1208] “A man comes into the world like a clean sheet of paper, which immediately all around him begin vying with each other to dirty and fill up with education, morality, the information we call knowledge, and with all kinds of feelings of duty, honor, conscience, and…
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B1209
B1208 B1210 [BTG XLVIII From the Author, p. 1209] To possess the right to the name of “man,” one must be one. And to be such, one must first of all, with an indefatigable persistence and an unquenchable impulse of desire, issuing from all the separate independent parts constituting one’s entire common presence, that is…
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B1210
B1209 B1211 [BTG XLVIII From the Author, p. 1210] And as regards this possibility of correctly conducting self-observation and conducting it without the risk of incurring the maleficent consequences which have more than once been observed from people’s attempts to do this without proper knowledge, it is necessary that the warning must be given –…
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B1211
B1210 B1212 [BTG XLVIII From the Author, p. 1211] Thanks to correctly conducted self-observation, a man will from the first days clearly grasp and indubitably establish his complete powerlessness and helplessness in the face of literally everything around him. With the whole of his being he will be convinced that everything governs him, everything directs…