"Man at his best is a system-breaker, an iconoclast seeking not only variety, but destruction."
Quote Details
Added by wikiquote-import-bot
Unverified quote
0 likes
People from MelbourneNon-fiction authors from AustraliaAcademics from AustraliaEducators from AustraliaSociologists from Australia
Original Language: English
Available Languages (1)
Sources
p. 152
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Carroll
Revision History
No revisions have been submitted for this quote.
Categories
John Carroll
58 quotes on TrueQuotesView all quotes by John Carroll →
Related Quotes
"Stirner and Nietzsche [adopt] a mode of thinking which is personal, introspective, and which while often operating on…"
"The Inquisitor is the forgiving father, the scientific materialist, and the social engineer. He is the most compassio…"
"Dostoevsky … impeaches Christ through the mouth of the Grand Inquisitor: ‘it was pitiless of thee to value man so hig…"
"Unlike Hegel’s progress model of history, which moves by stages, each containing its own logic of growth and decline,…"
"What stands most explicitly as critique in Nietzsche’s late work in not a development from earlier interests but a re…"
"The dialectical critique of positivist habits of mind … is interested only in behaviour which is ‘important’ to the a…"
"For Dostoevsky, Fourier is one of the industrious ant-hill engineers, busy, protected by the delusion that his goal, …"
"In so far as the intention of education is to train the child for a vocation it is a millstone around his neck."
"The egoist … destroys the universal importance accorded to moral law by showing that life independent of it is possib…"
"Whereas Marx’s vision of homo faber becomes inoperative within social chains, Stirner’s man makes his own freedom."