Man’s Reflexive Inhumanity [Oscar Wilde]
2009-10-17 01:40:19 // The Operator
Tagged: ego
As he looked back upon man moving through history, he was haunted by a feeling of loss. So much had been surrendered! and to such little purpose! There had been mad wilful rejections, monstrous forms of self-torture and self-denial, whose origin was fear and whose result was a degradation infinitely more terrible than that fancied degradation from which, in their ignorance, they had sought to escape; Nature, in her wonderful irony, driving out the anchorite to feed with the wild animals of the desert and giving to the hermit the beasts of the field as his companions.
- The Picture of Dorian Gray
by Oscar Wilde, 1890
60 – Hexagram Sixty: Chieh
Self-discipline teetering toward self-destruction.
An empty martyrdom.
Turn back.