Some words/ideas I want to focus on as I drift through the days:
This division, between Kultur and Zivilisation, was underlined by a second opposition, that between Geist and Macht, the realm of intellectual or spiritual endeavor and the realm of power and political control.
I lean strongly in the direction of Kultur (as opposed to Zivilisation) and Geist as opposed to Macht.
Bildung – true (inner) freedom – involved three things: Zwecklosigkeit, Innerlichkeit, and Wissenschaftlichkeit (non-purposiveness inwardness and scholarliness).
Zwecklosigkeit = "non-purosiveness" ---> what to do with one's life on earth? Nothing.
Innerlichkeit = "inwardness" ---> talking to myself
Wissenschaftlichkeit = "scholariness" ---> enjoying one's higher mental faculties as an end in itself.