People who think their daily lives too empty and monotonous easily become religious: this is understandable and forgivable; however, they have no right to demand religiosity from those whose daily life does not pass in emptiness and monotony.
Leute, welchen ihr tägliches Leben zu leer und eintönig vorkommt, werden leicht religiös: diess ist begreiflich und verzeihlich, nur haben sie kein Recht, Religiosität von Denen zu fordern, denen das tägliche Leben nicht leer und eintönig verfliesst.
"A peculiar anthologic maze, an amusing literary chaos, a farrago of quotations, a mere olla podrida of quaintness, a pot pourri of pleasant delites, a florilegium of elegant extracts, a tangled fardel of old-world flowers of thought, a faggot of odd fancies, quips, facetiae, loosely tied" (Holbrook Jackson, Anatomy of Bibliomania) by a "laudator temporis acti," a "praiser of time past" (Horace, Ars Poetica 173).
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Sunday, August 25, 2024
Religiosity
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900), Human, All Too Human, I.iii, § 115 (tr. R.J. Hollingdale):