Aphorisms and treatises E-Book

Klaus Zankl

• Herausgeber: novum publishing
• Kategorie: Gesellschafts- und Liebesromane
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 188

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2025

Beschreibung

The most important thing first: you shouldn't read this book in one go. The author's aphorisms encourage reflection. A suggestion: pick up the book, run your finger over the spine and open it at any page, preferably with your eyes closed. You will find passages like the following: "Why do children of criminals end up in care and not their parents in forensic psychiatry?" With these and many other questions, Zankl challenges his readers to look behind the scenes! He deals with questions of upbringing ("complicated"), with the topics of education and professional life (also "complicated") and with the topic of men and women (this much can be revealed: "very complicated").

Leseprobe

Introduction

Completed in February 2005 in

Wilhelmshaven

after more than five years of work.

Foreword

You can expect:

The best satire, sometimes beautifully wicked, precise insights, sharp observations, contemplative, psychological and philosophical. The reason for things becomes manifest and obvious, the connections in life are depicted, explained and unraveled.

A warm welcome to you!

From the normal person

Normal people are what their innate nature dictates. I am as I want to be.

From the neurologist

It's strange: if I go to the urologist with abdominal pain and he diagnoses cystitis, for example, he says my bladder is ill and he will cure it. If I go to the ear doctor with an earache, he will say that my inner ear is ill and he will cure it. If I go to the internist with stomach pain, he says my stomach is sick and he will cure it. But if I go to a neurologist, he says I am ill. Why is that so?

The poet's soul

The poet's soul is and remains a place of little cheerfulness.

From the sporty

I see tanning and fitness studios everywhere and flawless bodies on the advertising for them. As long as there are wars and violence all over the world caused by people, whether they are sporty or not, there is no need for fit bodies, but for fit minds. As a rule, these do not exist anywhere.

From the human animal

Unfortunately, people are not normally there to grow or become, but only to be. But he knows a lot about that, even if only with a thousand lies. Nevertheless, like an animal, he eats, shits and sleeps. At the end of his days, he has to say goodbye and finds nirvana difficult. In the course of his life he encounters many unbearable narcissistic afflictions. All the physical illnesses together do not do nearly as much damage to him as the humiliations that leave a lasting mark on him to the point of personality disorder. Nevertheless, no one leaves the other in peace. What is life for?

Where do we come from?

There are two important theories for the origin of mankind: One is evolution, the other is the creation story. The first theory lacks important links that have not yet been found. The other raises the question of why an omnipotent God knowingly created two initially perfect human beings who would subsequently become mutated sinners and pass this on, because human aggression is often not the result of an innate or acquired compulsion, which could perhaps be excused, but of a deeply felt passion that is naturally welcomed and affirmed. This in turn implies full culpability. So who will be the judge, evolution, i.e. nobody, or God? How will he judge, and what are his motives, if he has any?

Like all

Psychotherapists and psychologists have the greatest compulsion to evaluate of all. They pride themselves on their superhumanity and their knowledge of life as such. They take any deviation from this with glee, as it seemingly confirms their own infallibility. And yet they are hardly or not at all distinguishable from normal people, because they too are subject to

the valuation constraint

moralism against others

the rejection

of egocentricity

vanity

satisfaction after a full meal

Central nervous paralysis symptoms after overdosing with ethanol (babbling and staggering after drinking)

the lack of intuition for the next person, although the profession actually teaches otherwise.

From endurance

The clever pupil does his time at school, the clever prisoner his sentence, the talented apprentice his training. The best among us know better: they serve their whole lives. What a feat of endurance and test of patience!

From doubt

It was always the neurasthenic doubt and the rather subjective-abstract thinking that made me seem ridiculous. And yet they have great legitimacy, because the greatest neglected source of error in thinking is and remains the excessive certainty in it. It seems flawless, irrefutable and obviously correct. But history shows: What was true yesterday is no longer true today, what was right yesterday is wrong today. Even: what was proven yesterday is no longer worth anything today. If, for once, the concrete thinker could be made accessible to the subjective way of thinking and thus be reduced to absurdity, what doubts are on his face!

The end

It was the time when the apocalypse had wiped out mankind. In the fields, human corpses were decomposing to fertilize the soil. It was a representative of God who rang my doorbell to put me on trial. I lay in bed, as I often did, because it was my earthly fate to suffer from depression and the worst stomach pains for most of my life. I said: "How dare you disturb me, lying in bed and suffering? If you want to judge me, why didn't you come much earlier to finally put an end to it?"

I received the worst of all imaginable punishments for my quite objective insolence: I was condemned to eternal paradise, without the possibility of ever being pardoned!

The clever one

If I say I'm clever, people think I'm vain, arrogant and snobbish. If I say I'm stupid, everyone believes it.

The big shot

Only a few have not made a big splash in front of me.

What is personality?

The overall mental appearance of a living being is its personality. A bad personality exists everywhere, only those who are blind do not see it. A good personality is characterized by deeply felt {moral} insights, which presuppose the {moral} spirit. The formula is quite simple: no spirit, no insights, bad personality, or if you like, no personality.

From education

Once upon a time there was a little girl who was brought up in an anti-authoritarian way. It was the same girl who years later demanded everything and knew nothing. Once upon a time there was a little boy who was brought up in an authoritarian way. It was the same boy who years later committed several murders because of his aggressive behavior and got a life sentence for it. How do you raise a child properly?

The lovable one

Only the lovable can be pleased by loveliness.

The dictatorship

The oldest dictatorship is that of the individual. It is sometimes overshadowed by state dictatorships, but at some point it is time to throw them all overboard and replace them with a different form of government. What remains is innate human behavior, which is aimed at heteronomy and assignment and determines the essence of daily life together. It has proven to be negative and unchangeable. There is therefore no way of eliminating the claim to this heteronomy and the dictatorship associated with it.

From the conviction

When I was young, I had convictions like everyone else, whether they were good or bad. If it wasn't one, it was another. But over the years it has become clear to me that every conviction only lasted as long as it was not replaced and superseded by new experiences or insights. For this reason, it is quite difficult for me today to consider any idea or thought, be it my own or foreign, as revolutionary, ingenious or as a standard for the world. The moment of deception of the imperfect human being becomes clearly recognizable in the long term. There can therefore be no certainty for us in our thoughts and actions, even if we were to live for a thousand years.

From the experience

People say that they have gained experience in life with age. However, as is so often the case, a differentiated view gives rise to doubts: there are not only experienced people in old age on the one hand and naïve children on the other, but also those who draw no conclusions from what they have experienced over the years and those who subject themselves to merciless self-criticism on the basis of what they have learned. This is what defines the young man of a hundred years and also the boyish connoisseur of human nature.

From the bloody deed

The perpetrator is a hero and the victim a coward, no matter how perfidiously the perpetrator has acted.

About friendship

Friendship is only exceptionally incumbent on humans due to their birth. It is all too easy to find each other boring, even unbearable. Although people are sociable by nature, they have only managed to be together superficially in order to avoid loneliness. The other person is generally indifferent. If, by way of exception, friendship is offered, it is often rejected due to excuses or alleged lack of time and sometimes even indignantly rejected. If, however, a relationship that has the appearance of friendship does occur, one should make sure that there is love between the two, if there are even minor irregularities, the traitor to the cause is revealed. So again someone who is no good for friendship.

What humans cannot tolerate

People will forgive you for one thing or another, but never for one thing: if you leave them, even though they themselves would not act differently!

From work

There is something that has traditionally been grossly overrated in Germany: work.

The botched Abitur

It's always the same: those who can think don't manage the Abitur.

The typical German

The Germans are a strange people. They always need something they can firmly believe in. Once it was the Kaiser, then the Führer, then Adenauer and perhaps Kennedy. In the end, Kohl completed the picture. Apart from the public health officer, I am not aware of any major idols today, but it is probably only a matter of time.

From intelligence

Anyone who can think logically and against their experience is truly intelligent and admirable.

About the war

Those who go to war and can forge good weapons are well advised. But whoever can build the most tanks wins the war.

The enemy

There are good boys and bad boys in the world. Once the enemy is there, there are only bad boys.

The master of storytelling

The master storyteller finds mathematics very difficult. It's the same the other way around.

From the urologist

Whenever I have had a urological examination, I always think differently afterwards than I did before.

The cheerful nature

I have never felt greater hatred than towards the one who is always in a good mood. He finds everything positive, even though there is so much bad. If he breaks a leg, he's glad that he didn't break both. If he loses a hundred marks, he is glad that it wasn't two hundred. If he feels sick, a heart attack would probably have been worse. He scolds me destructively because I don't want to share his mania. These people have partially lost touch with reality without knowing it. Nevertheless, they are generally more popular than the severe melancholic because dealing with them gives them wings. However, this is a pathologically happy-natural configuration.

The human

They say I should be human. All right, who should I kill?

From genius

Most geniuses are found in psychiatric hospitals.

Why the dog makes little men

All mammals and vertebrates are very docile and intelligent. Like us, they have a pronounced consciousness, except that they cannot say it. Take the dog or the cat, for example. The dog recognizes very early on the connection between making mates and liver sausage. The cat realizes very soon that pooping in the litter box and not purring from the balcony will result in additional cuddles. The greater the reward and thus the motive, the greater the learning success; indeed, four-legged friends are literally trained as rescue dogs and search for accident victims with great success. Cats are trained with great success and jump from stool to stool in the circus, over the trainer and then through a ring of fire.

However, if the circumstances and conditions change, the limits of the immediate intellect are recognized, i.e. the dog searches unsuccessfully for injured people in the neighbor's house, the cat shits in the mother-in-law's rabbit hutch and the parrot squawks "Dad has a girlfriend" without any sense or reason, which the children have taught him and Mum now hears by chance. It is the same with humans. If the motive is high, the learning successes are usually corresponding. If it is the diploma that entices, it will be achieved. If it is the doctorate that entices, it will also be achieved. Habilitation? No problem, provided you have a certain amount of talent, of course. However, it is mainly teachers, doctors, lawyers, police officers and psychologists who fail in the most diverse situations in life. Teachers turn out not to be able to think subjectively, which would, however, help the pupil to understand, doctors diagnose malingering, especially in the case of congenital and not immediately visible changes in the organs, lawyers do not impose harsh sentences on dangerous violent criminals, police officers beat blameless foreigners and psychologists destroy the patient because he has a different opinion. Under these practical circumstances, which may well deviate from what they have learned, they almost all fail. It's nothing new: what the farmer doesn't know, he doesn't eat.

There is no God

You only have to live long enough to see that there is no God. Everything in life is only the consequence and corollary of what has gone before. A God, be he Allah or Jehovah or Manitou, does not fit in. But even if he did exist, did he really deserve recognition?

The board in front of your head

The social phobic undoubtedly has the biggest chip on his shoulder. He is therefore the most hated homo sapiens of all. Ask teachers, trainers, educators, but also acquaintances, neighbors or mother-in-laws, they all say the same thing about him: he alone is to blame for everyone's misery. He is met with more aggression than the biggest bastard, because the patience of civilized people is not very good. But why is he, of all people, awarded the Nobel Prize?

From the woman

I am often asked why I have never married, now that I am thirty-five years old. Is a woman more capable of the spirit than a man?

The trauma

Some childhood traumatized people later tend towards lifelong self-valorization. Above all, generally accepted values such as beauty, wealth, masculinity and intelligence are presented and claimed for themselves, whether or not they are actually true. When asked about this, one quickly learns that almost nothing in life is interesting, and criticism of oneself is certainly not. Accordingly, one has never heard of a successful therapy for this personality disorder.

Good and evil

I find it hard to believe that God is only good and Satan only evil. At least neither would find an adequate counterpart on the inhabited earth.

The urge to commit crime

In some subjects, the urge to commit crime comes right after vital urges such as hunger, thirst, sleep and reproduction. It is a fairy tale that a criminal is brought up to be a criminal. Just as everyone else is born with their individual nature, which has proven to be unchangeable for life, from their ancestors, they are also born as carriers of their, in this case, bad characteristics. Although upbringing cannot be completely ignored, it only serves to slightly strengthen or mitigate the inherited potential. History once again shows just how strong the drive to commit crime can be: the ancient Romans were barbarians and were still crucified, but even there some of them committed the most serious crimes. So nothing and no one will ever be able to completely prevent the active or passive execution of injustice, neither through the threat of reprisals nor through the deployment of an armed army.

From the physiognomic fragments

Physiognomy may not be a perfect science, but it is still very important to me because it reflects a high degree of anthropology. Most people really are what they look like, perhaps clever or stupid, perhaps sweet or violent. My favorite is the clear-cut, characterful face. A clear head, two clear eyes and a clear word characterize this person. Sometimes, however, there are notable exceptions to the rule, and it is easy to misjudge them. Nature just does what it wants.

The individualist

There are very few people who are independent of praise and blame. They are called individualists.

Who is brave?

The bravest men in world history have also been the most fearful. Only those who have fear and overcome it are courageous. The heroic deed as such, which was carried out completely without fear, is hardly worth mentioning.

Of your own kind

The greatest aggression in humans and animals is usually directed against their own species.

The cause-and-effect principle

Here on earth and probably in most areas of the universe, the cause-and-effect principle applies. This means that there is no cause that does not result in an effect. It is the same the other way round: there is no effect that is not based on a cause. But is it not conceivable that there are sections of the universe that are invisible to us and in which this law does not apply? This would mean that things happen there that we could only explain with a kind of magic, since they lie outside our experience. A person who would be transformed into this world would probably have to die immediately.

About proportionality

Good and evil or value and unvalue are not objectively representable or measurable. One person shudders at the accidental crushing of an earthworm, even though the next would pay the entrance fee for a medieval four-part division, but of course only if the other is killed. Who is good and who is bad?

Why rhino shit tastes good

Schopenhauer once rejected life. He called man a thinking being only in the broader sense, as he was not aware of the omnipresent problem of existence. But strictly speaking, this must be the case, because life generally derives its drive initially from the pursuit of self-preservation, the joy of being and the inability to recognize the dubiousness and agony of it. Only in this way is it possible to create one generation after another that will never ask questions or question existential matters in the future. In this way, the survival of one's own species is guaranteed in any case, the goal of evolution achieved. However, should the striving for self-preservation cease, for whatever reason, and should the joy of being be replaced by depression, then under these circumstances the most stupid will quickly realize that the problem of being is one of the most difficult and most important of all and that life is nothing. The pill-pusher would die out if he could think and realize what job he is doing!

A subjective description of fear

Fear is the endless vortex that drives me hopelessly away with no return.

From respect

Affection cannot be forced, respect can and must be forced, by force if necessary.

From sensitivity

Sensitivity is a very positive quality. It is a pity, however, that it is usually only used against oneself.

The big bang

Astrophysicists regard the Big Bang as the cradle of all life. Since energy and matter are compatible, all living things ultimately evolved from this energy, wherever it may have come from. As a result, we would find stars, suns, moons and planets interacting exquisitely through balanced gravitational forces, thus holding the universe together and, in particular, the right conditions on Earth (temperature, pressure, atmospheric composition, water, fertile soil and so on). This theory is plausible and cannot be dismissed out of hand. But I remain stubborn - why this bizarre miracle?

The value of life

From a moral and ethical point of view, life is priceless and cannot be outweighed by gold. In our daily existence, however, we only feel the value that is attributed to us by others. Strangely enough, this is extremely low.

The adversity

For every adversity, there is someone who finds it good.

The cheeky grin

The cheeky, annoying grin is everywhere. Whether it sounds trivial or not, his motive is narcissism. It is encouraged by imprinting and is not revised by the immaturity of the person concerned. And if the grinner hasn't died, he'll still be grinning tomorrow.

Learning and teaching

It is amazing how much knowledge man has acquired in the course of his existence. However, in nothing is he more unimaginative than in passing on his knowledge. This sometimes even leads to gifted people having to leave a secondary school because they cannot follow the unimaginative teaching. They are then absurdly considered not talented enough. However, if they still want to continue their education, their only option is to study on their own, which many of them do. Another grotesque example is reflected particularly clearly in computer science: the computer is a very extravagant student because it does not react to insults and cannot be expelled from school. In fact, everything has to be explained to him very precisely in the form of his language and in terms of his subjectivity; the smallest irregularities lead to immediate failure, because he does exactly what he is told, including the mistakes that result from unintentionally transmitted ambiguities or ambiguities. So the only way left is to meet the soulless machine with as much imagination and dedication as possible, a way that is generally not used by the ordinary student. And yet what do I see in the completed programs that end up running on the systems? Errors, errors, errors!

From recognition

Only those who correspond to one's own subjective ideals and values are recognized, be they spiritual or not. Thus the teacher likes the good student, the coach the athletic sportsman, the master the skillful apprentice, the con the successful bank robber and the sergeant the obedient soldier. General recognition is given to those who do not ask any questions other than those specific to their subject. Woe betide anyone who does not live up to these ideals!

From perception

It is the innate subtle psychological perception that allows me to recognize fetishisms, atavisms, hidden currents and strange urges in myself and others and is accompanied by an almost obsessive, i.e. tormenting, desire to observe. Admittedly: This is probably the stuff that good literature is made of, but believe me, if I could swap, I would do it in a heartbeat!

From ravenous hunger

For some people, nothing demonstrates their relationship to animals more clearly than eating.

The egocentric