To live alone one must be an animal or a god –says Aristotle. There is yet a third case; one must be both –a philosopher. Twilight of the Idols, By Friedrich Nietzsche, Trans. by R. G. Collingdale Maxims and Arrows 3 …philosophy once again pose(s) the same question(s) as they did 2,000 years ago:…
My writings… An air of heights, a robust air. The ice is near, the solitude is terrible But…how freely one breathes! How much one feels beneath one! Philosophy.. is a voluntary living in ice and high mountains -a seeking after everything strange and questionable in existence, all that has hitherto been excommunicated by morality….
Can all values not be turned around? And is goodness perhaps evil? And God only an invention and finesse of the Devil? Is everything perhaps in the last resort false? And if we are deceived, are we not for that very reason also deceivers? must we not be deceivers? …learn to grasp the necessary…
Tomorrow is Valentine’s Day. It is good to embrace the day dedicated to love, the opportunity to celebrate relationships which make one more human, more in tune with the person that is becoming in the journey of one’s solitary life. I offer words that came my way, gratefully received and sourced from someone else. …
This task itself demands something different –it demands that he/she create values. Actual philosophers are commanders and law-givers: they say ‘thus it shall be!’ it is they who determine the Wherefore and Whether of mankind, and they possess for this task the preliminary work of all philosophical laborers, of all those who have subdued…
Nothing brings together more Americans — not awards shows, not television series finales, not even presidential debates — than the Super Bowl. …Las Vegas is hosting its first Super Bowl today. The city has a fraught history with professional sports because of its association with gambling, and leagues have kept teams away to maintain…
Another Saturday morning at Starbucks. No two Saturdays are alike. With a backward look each of those Saturdays has its own character. After all change is another way of saying that time matters. Time is the ocean that buoys, supports, in which everything swims. I have been swimming for a few days toward the…
Art is the highest value. In relation to the value truth, it is the higher value. The one, ever in a fresh way, calls forth the other. Both values determine in their value-relation the unitive essence of the intrinsic value-positing will to power. The will to power is the reality of the will or,…
Commanding, which is to be sharply distinguished from the mere ordering about of others, is self-conquest and is more difficult than obeying. Will is gathering oneself together for the given task. Only he who cannot obey himself must be expressly commanded. What the will wills it does not merely strive after as something it…
Acquaintances express surprise when they learn about my interest in philosophy, and my taste for Friedrich Nietzsche’s books. I’ve heard, “that sounds deep,” more than once. How many experiences, areas of life, strike us as “deep” from a distance? I say to myself, “why not come closer and have a better look?” Many aspects…
