Personality, Nazies, neurosis, a confident person, happiness, Barbusse, and a myopic

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Personalities change as much as tangible bodies, and yet we consider the personality as the person.

Honesty is not disdaining the Nazis for who they were, because you were not.

Neurosis is a virtue. Confidence a vice. The confident person manipulates himself and society, because he believes himself right. The neurotic bravely admits not knowing. The confident one cowardly hides unquestioningly behind the paradigm.

Happiness with meaning is precarious.

Happiness without meaning is happiness.

Barbusse: "Truth, what do they mean by it?"

Could anything help a myopic person who can't see well enough to find their own glasses?

Biological and psychological inessentials are the new domain.

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These selected fragments are excerpted from unpublished writings by Jack Haas; selections from the notebooks 1990-2005.