Man is a rope, tied between beast and overman —a rope over an abyss. A dangerous across, a dangerous on-the-way, a dangerous looking-back, a dangerous shuddering and stopping. What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not an end: what can be loved in man is…
‘Will a self’ – Active, successful natures act, not according to the dictum ‘know thyself’, but as if there hovered before them the commandment: will a self and thou shalt become a self… Assorted Opinions and Maxims, by Nietzsche, trans. by R. J. Hollingdale, aphorism 366 Gnothi Seauton (γνῶθι σεαυτόν), “know thyself!” is reported…
What is good? -All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man. What is bad? -Everything that is born of weakness. What is happiness? -The feeling that power is growing -That resistance is overcome. The Anti-Christ, by Friedrich Nietzsche, Trans. R. J. Hollingdale. aphorism 2 The good and…
In naturethe rule is not the state of distressit is superfluity, prodigality,even to the point of absurdity. The struggle for existence is only an exception,a temporary restriction of the will of life.The struggle, great and small,everywhere turns on ascendancy, on growth and extension,–in accordance with the will to powerwhich is the will of life….
Day three of recovery from covid. I am feeling somewhat better. I decided to attempt to mow the lawn. There is no doubt that being 75 years of age in combination with covid made the task a challenge. The passage of time. Nothing is absolved from the eroding effects of time. Clearly this varies…
I prefer not to take a break from daily writing. Still, Covid imposed a day off. Monday night I ran a high fever. I had delirious thoughts, attempting to connect ideas that promptly fell apart in my semi conscious misery. Now with Tylenol and Paxlovid I am feeling much better. I cannot get the…
‘Power against which much ill is done and mediated is worth more than impotence when it encounters only good’ -thus the Greeks felt. That is to say: they valued the feeling of power more highly than any sort of utility or good reputation. Daybreak by Friedrich Nietzsche, trans. R. J. Hollingdale, aphorism 360 Nietzsche…
My hometown. I spent several days in Durham to visit with some old friends. Now life has resumed for me in Batavia. I have lived nearly all of my adult life in the Midwest. The values and viewpoint of the middle of the Midwest are the composite self that most easily presents to my…
In my beginning is my end. In succession Houses rise and fall, crumble, are extended, Are removed, destroyed, restored, or in their place Is an open field, or a factory, or a by-pass. Old stone to new building, old timber to new fires, Old fires to ashes, and ashes to the earth Which is…
In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point. Nothing but imaginary causes (‘God’, ’soul’, ‘ego’, ‘spirit’, ‘free will’, – or ‘unfree-will.): Nothing but imaginary effects (‘sin’, ‘redemption’, ‘grace’, ‘punishment’, ‘forgiveness of sins’). Once the concept of ‘nature’ has been devised as the concept antithetical to ‘God’, ‘natural’ had…
