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Quotes from Break-Out from the Crystal Palace — John Carroll

born 1944 Australia

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A teleology directed to material ends has been substituted for the lust for adventure, variety, and play.

Break-Out from the Crystal Palace (1974)

By punishing the criminal the moral man hopes to dissuade the evil imprisoned in his own breast from escaping. Fear of self is projected in hatred of the immoral other.

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Education is the strongest weapon available for restricting the questions people ask, controlling what they think, and ensuring that they get their thoughts ‘from above’.

Break-Out from the Crystal Palace (1974)

Whereas Marx’s vision of homo faber becomes inoperative within social chains, Stirner’s man makes his own freedom.

Break-Out from the Crystal Palace (1974)

Men become utilitarian out of fear of the alternative—the chaos of tangled or tepid desires, of rootlessness and boredom.

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Man at his best is a system-breaker, an iconoclast seeking not only variety, but destruction.

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The real task is not to rid life of ethics but to rid ethics of its ideological content.

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Man is more than an animal only in that he finds expression for the beautiful.

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Nietzsche [claims] that the scientist is at best an instrument, a useful slave: he does not command or decide, he is not a whole man.

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In so far as the intention of education is to train the child for a vocation it is a millstone around his neck.

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The ugliness of the ideological lies in its legitimating the pursuit of the trivial.

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The act of greatest subversion … is the one of indifference.

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The schizophrenic is seen to be afraid of the nihilistic void that … will remain when a rigid world-view is discarded.

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The primary ambition of Nietzsche’s critique of knowledge is … to demonstrate that ‘truths’ are fictions masking moral commitments.

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Nietzsche … combines, in effect, Christ’s harsh sayings: ‘let the dead bury their dead’ and ‘narrow is the way which leadeth unto life’.

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This will of Stirner’s, this restless probing of all given knowledge, this endless questioning, and the continuous bending towards new understanding, …

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Stirner … holds to a joy-principle rather than to a pleasure-principle.

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For Dostoevsky, Fourier is one of the industrious ant-hill engineers, busy, protected by the delusion that his goal, the will-ordered society, is the summation of all his desires.

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Politics and the affairs of State are dissociated from the orbit of the individual, and in so far as they cannot be repossessed as his living private property they must be rendered impotent.

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Unlike Hegel’s progress model of history, which moves by stages, each containing its own logic of growth and decline, the economic model develops as the simple function of one money-variable over time, with a long-term trend which increases monotonically.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: John Carroll (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.