Pleasure was separated from work, means from end, effort from reward. Eternally shackled to one small fragment of the whole, man imagined himself to be a fragment, in his ear the constant and monotonous noise of the wheel that he turned … he simply became the impress of his occupation, his particular knowledge.
—Friedrich Schiller, On the Aesthetic Education of Man
The greatest hazard of all, losing one’s self, can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all.
—Søren Kierkegaard, The Sickness Unto Death
Metaphysical Pathos
Whence flows our deep hatred of bureaucracy? It seems strange, does it not? Bureaucracy is just a way to ...
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