The lack of personality
always takes its revenge:

A weakened, thin, extinguished personality
that denies itself is no longer fit for anything good
–least of all for philosophy.

“Selflessness” has no value
either in heaven or on earth.

All great problems demand great love,
and of that only strong, round, secure spirits
who have a firm grip on themselves are capable.

It makes the most telling difference whether a
thinker has a personal relationship to his problems
and finds in them his/her destiny, his/her distress, and his/her greatest happiness,
or an “impersonal” one,
meaning that he can do no better
than to touch them and grasp them
with the antennae of cold, curious thought.

In the latter case nothing will come of it…

–excerpt The Gay Science, Book 5, Section 345 by Friedrich Nietzsche

These words preface Nietzsche’s examination of morality.  This appeal, –the approbation of a robust, substantive personality almost makes me stand and applaud.  Nietzsche advocates a self, tenacious to examine the foundation of what kindles one’s interest.  One ought to have a personal stake…

I knew someone in the past who was eager to lay down his view of “human nature” which struck me as ill-considered nonsense.  He fancied himself to be humble, and objective.  What purpose did he serve by playing the role of bloviating wind-bag?  Perhaps, to inflate a small-man ego?

A great deal of this sort of absurdity infects the zeitgeist now.  Everyone can have his/her own channel, and become an “influencer.”

     All great problems demand great love.

This merits saying one more time:

     All great problems demand great love.