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poema de Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, escrito en 1773, publicado en 1785
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Join the room"Prometheus" es un poema de Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, en el que el personaje del mítico Prometeo se dirige a Dios en una acusación y desafío misoteísta. El poema fue escrito entre 1772 y 1774 y publicado por primera vez en 1789. Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi publicó una versión anónima y no autorizada en 1785. Es una obra importante del movimiento alemán Sturm und Drang.
“A man contains all that is needed to make up a tree; likewise, a tree contains all that is needed to make up a man. Thus, finally, all things meet in all things, but we need a Prometheus to distill it.”
“Prometheus, thief of light, giver of light, bound by the gods, must have been a book.”
“Mike is our Prometheus — but that's all. Mike keeps emphazing this. Thou art God, I am God, he is God — all that groks. Mike is a man like the rest of us. A superior man admittedly — a lesser man taught the things the Martians know, might have set himself up as a pipsqueak god. Mike is above that temptation. Prometheus… but that is all.”
“Man is the animal who weeps and laughs — and writes. If the first Prometheus brought fire from heaven in a fennel-stalk, the last will take it back — in a book.”
“As technology became more important, the Trickster underwent a shift in character and became the god of crafts — of technology, if you will — while retaining the underlying roguish qualities. So we have the Sumerian Enki, the Greek Prometheus and Hermes, Norse Loki, and so on.”
“The current rampages of territorial-emotional pugnacity sweeping this planet are not just another civilization failing … They are the birth-pangs of a cosmic Prometheus rising out of the long nightmare of domesticated primate history.”
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