"Analysis is useful as an instrument of enlightenment and civilization, good insofar as it shakes foolish convictions, dissolves natural prejudices, and undermines authority, in other words, insofar as it liberates, refines, humanizes, and ripens servants for freedom. But it is bad, very bad, insofar as it paralyzes the power of crime, corrupts life at its roots, which it is unable to transform. Analysis is sometimes a very unpleasant thing, as unpleasant as death, because it actually belongs there... it is related to the grave and the suspicious anatomy of the grave.
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Analysis is useful as an instrument of enlightenment and civilization, good insofar as it shakes foolish convictions, dissolves natural prejudices, and undermines authority, in other words, insofar as it liberates, refines, humanizes, and ripens servants for freedom. But it is bad, very bad, insofar as it paralyzes the power of crime, corrupts life at its roots, which it is unable to transform. Analysis is sometimes a very unpleasant thing, as unpleasant as death, because it actually belongs there... it is related to the grave and the suspicious anatomy of the grave.
""Az analízis hasznos, mint a felvilágosodás és a civilizáció eszköze, jó, amennyiben megrendíti az ostoba meggyőződést, feloszlat természetes előítéleteket, és aláássa a tekintélyt, más szavakkal: amennyiben felszabadít, finomít, emberibbé tesz, és a szolgákat megérleli a szabadságra. De rossz, nagyon rossz, amennyiben megbénítja a tetterőt, gyökerében rontja meg az életet, amelyet átalakítani képtelen. Az analízis néha nagyon gusztustalan dolog, éppolyan gusztustalan, mint a halál, hiszen voltaképpen odatartozik... rokona a sírnak és a sír gyanús anatómiájának."