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Ludwig Klages byl německý filosof, psycholog a kritik modernity, jeden z průkopníků grafologie.

✵ 10. prosinec 1872 – 29. červenec 1956
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“Everything purposeful is meaningless, and everything meaningful is purposeless.”

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Ludwig Klages

Zdroj: Rhythmen und Runen (1944), p. 280

“Beauty is but the cloak of happiness. Where joy tarries, there also is beauty.”

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Zdroj: Rhythmen und Runen (1944), p. 468

“Whereas the Americans thought that they were fighting for such high-minded slogans as "liberty" and "justice," they were actually fighting to stuff the money bags of the big bankers. These "free citizens" are, in fact, mere marionettes; their freedom is imaginary, and a brief glance at American work-methods and leisure-time entertainments is enough to prove conclusively that l’homme machine is not merely imminent: it is already the American reality.”

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Sämtliche Werke, vol. 4, p. 409, as translated by Joseph Pryce

“A man who cannot climb a tree will boast of never having fallen out of one.”

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Zdroj: Rhythmen und Runen (1944), p. 466

“The great masses, who have never been, in the history of mankind, more subject to hypnotic suggestion than they are right now, have become the puppets of the “public opinion” that is engineered by the newspapers in the service, it need hardly be emphasized, of the reigning powers of finance. What is printed in the morning editions of the big city newspapers is the opinion of nine out of ten readers by nightfall. The United States of America, whose more rapid “progress” enables us to predict the future on a daily basis, has pulled far ahead of the pack when it comes to standardizing thought, work, entertainment, etc.”

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Ludwig Klages

Sämtliche Werke, vol. 4, p. 408, as translated by Joseph Pryce

“The profundity of truth varies with the seeing power of the spirit which seeks it.”

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Ludwig Klages

The Science of Character (1929), as translated by W. H. Johnston, p. 18