Quote by Antonin Artaud

The race of prophets is extinct. Europe is becoming set in its ways, slowly embalming itself beneath the wrappings of its borders, its factories, its law-courts and its universities. The frozen Mind cracks between the mineral staves which close upon it. The fault lies with your moldy systems, your logic of 2 + 2 = 4. The fault lies with you, Chancellors, caught in the net of syllogisms. You manufacture engineers, magistrates, doctors, who know nothing of the true mysteries of the body or the cosmic laws of existence. False scholars blind outside this world, philosophers who pretend to reconstruct the mind. The least act of spontaneous creation is a more complex and revealing world than any metaphysics.


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Summary

This quote criticizes the rigid and stagnant state of Europe, suggesting that society has become closed off and suffocated by its established institutions such as borders, factories, law-courts, and universities. The author blames the outdated systems, like the logical reasoning that reduces everything to simplistic formulas. The core problem lies with the authorities who are trapped in a web of abstract reasoning. They are producing professionals who lack deep understanding of essential aspects of life and the universe. The quote emphasizes the value of genuine creativity and the mysteries it unravels, highlighting that even the simplest act of spontaneous creation can offer more insight than elaborate philosophies.

By Antonin Artaud
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