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Haste (n.) in ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠willing to know is the scholar's disease: it robs him of the glorious calm that comes from every insight gained.

Haste (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠universal because everyone is fleeing himself: every moment of life has a message for us, and we drown the spirit's voice in noise.

Haste (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠universal because everyone is in flight from himself; universal too is its shy concealment, because everyone wants to seem content.

Haste (n.) of ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠modern life means one no longer ponders deviant views — one contents oneself with hating them; everyone knows the land like a traveller from a railway carriage.

Haste (n.) of ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠modern work throttles all culture: one thinks with a watch in hand, lives as if one might miss something, and virtue has come to consist of doing something faster than someone else.