How far the perspectival character of existence extends or indeed whether existence has any other character than this; whether existence without interpretation, without sense, does not become “meaninglessness”. Whether on the other hand, all existence is not essentially actively engaged in interpretation –that cannot be decided even by the most industrious and most scrupulously…
How far the perspectival character of existence extends or indeed whether existence has any other character than this; whether existence without interpretation, without sense, does not become “meaninglessness”. Whether on the other hand, all existence is not essentially actively engaged in interpretation –that cannot be decided even by the most industrious and most scrupulously…
I take this explanation from the street. I heard one of the common people say, “he knew me right away.” Then I asked myself: What is it that the common people take for knowledge? What do they want when they want “knowledge”? Nothing more than this: Something strange is to be reduced to something…
…we could think, feel, will, and remember, and we could also “act” in every sense of that word, and yet none of all this would have to “enter our consciousness”. The whole of life would be possible without, as it were, seeing itself in a mirror. Man… as the most endangered animal, he needed…
The intellectual fight became an occupation, an attraction, a profession, a duty, something dignified-and eventually knowledge and the striving for the true found their place as a need among other needs. Henceforth not only faith and conviction but also scrutiny, denial, mistrust, and contradiction became a power; all “evil” instincts were subordinated to knowledge,…
Over one man/woman necessity stands In the shape of his passions, over another the habit of hearing an obeying, over a third as a logical conscience, over a fourth as caprice and a mischievous pleasure in escapades. These four will, however, seek freedom of their will precisely where each of…
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. …
