http://www.amygda7a.com/2008/09/08/pascalian-psychology/ Amy on (mostly) psychology, philosophy, and social software. Sun, 18 Jan 2009 18:20:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 http://www.amygda7a.com/2008/09/08/pascalian-psychology/comment-page-1/#comment-1640 method Sun, 18 Jan 2009 18:20:02 +0000 http://www.amygda7a.com/?p=28#comment-1640 "'Know thyself' does not mean 'Observe thyself.' 'Observe thyself' is what the Serpent says. It means: 'Make yourself master of your actions.' But you are so already, you are the master of your actions. So that saying means: 'Misjudge yourself! Destroy yourself!' which is something evil -- and only if one bends down very far indeed does one also hear the good in it, which is: 'In order to make of yourself what your are.'" -- Kafka “‘Know thyself’ does not mean ‘Observe thyself.’ ‘Observe thyself’ is what the Serpent says. It means: ‘Make yourself master of your actions.’ But you are so already, you are the master of your actions. So that saying means: ‘Misjudge yourself! Destroy yourself!’ which is something evil — and only if one bends down very far indeed does one also hear the good in it, which is: ‘In order to make of yourself what your are.’” — Kafka

]]> http://www.amygda7a.com/2008/09/08/pascalian-psychology/comment-page-1/#comment-1574 hb Tue, 09 Sep 2008 12:56:42 +0000 http://www.amygda7a.com/?p=28#comment-1574 Ah, Pascal. He would have been helpful: "Hey, asshole on the couch. Self-knowledge is impossible!" Ah, Pascal. He would have been helpful: “Hey, asshole on the couch. Self-knowledge is impossible!”

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