'D'apres Caspar David Friedrich'. Photo: Carlo Chiopris

Monday 21 March 2011

.. one is not free to be free ...

"Remember that we live in an age when each objection becomes a personal offence, so people either adore one another like gods, or they hate one another like devils - but nobody has the courage to love - and of innate love there is now so little like never before. 
From this follows - that we must not see the weak side in those whom we have learnt to value, nor are we allowed to see the good side in whom we must not value. In other words, one is not allowed to act as a Christian towards his fellow men, that is, one is not free to be free.
As a result there is no criticism today: there is only abuse, evasiveness, or adoration, pagan and blind."