The will to a system
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The will to a system is a lack of integrity.-Nietzsche
I used to put that in my Yahoo profiles. I’ve thought about putting it on a t-shirt. For thirty years I’ve thought it terribly funny.
Here’s my reading of Nietzsche’s words. A system requires integrity in the sense of internal consistency. Adjusting and manipulating facts, perceptions, intuitions into a whole falsify the original materials. That is you have to lie which in itself is a failure of integrity.
Some jokes just can’t be shared.
Comments
Correct reading of this quote, in my opinion, but I have never found it to be funny, just accurate. Hope this helps.
Posted by: Doug | October 27, 2003 4:56 PM
Humor is idiosyncratic: what may send me into a fit of laugter might put most people to sleep.
Posted by: Richard | October 30, 2003 7:03 AM