If we had not welcomed the arts and invented this kind of cult of the untrue, then the realization of general untruth and mendaciousness that now comes to us through science –the realization that delusion and error are conditions of human knowledge and sensation –would be utterly unbearable. Honesty would lead to nausea and…
Everything in a Greek or Christian building originally had a meaning, and referred to a higher order of things; this feeling of inexhaustible meaning enveloped the edifice like a mystic veil. Beauty was only a secondary consideration in the system, without in any way materially injuring the fundamental sentiment of the mysteriously-exalted, the divinely…
“Cause” and “effect” is what one says; but we have merely perfected the image of becoming without reaching beyond the image or behind it. In every case the series of “causes” confronts us much more completely, and we infer: first, this and that has to precede in order that this or that may then…
These semi-animals which were well adapted to the wilderness, to war, to prowling about, to adventure –suddenly all their instincts were deprived of value and ‘suspended’… They felt incapable of the simplest undertakings, in this new unfamiliar world their former guides, the regulating and unconsciously certain guides, deserted them – These unhappy creatures were…
The slave revolt in morality begins when resentment itself becomes creative and gives birth to values; the resentment of creatures to whom the real reaction, that of the deed, is denied and who can indemnify themselves only through an imaginary revenge. While every noble morality develops from a triumphant affirmation of itself, slave morality…
“Believing” in God is like “believing” in the taste of fresh-baked bread without ever having tasted actual fresh-baked bread. But what if you could commune with the Divine-Wow through up-close, personal encounters that are as vivid as eating fresh-baked bread? Some people have. You could, too. Formulate the intention to do so. Freewill Astrology…
Wednesday is midpoint of a seven day week. The middle is regarded to be the point of balance. It is common to believe that maintaining a balance, middle of the road, porridge not too hot and not too cold, the Goldilocks principle, (and the bed not too soft and not too hard, but just…
When I visited humankind, I found them sitting upon an old self-conceit. Each one thought he had long since known what was good and evil for humankind. All talk of virtue seemed to them an ancient wearied affair; and he who wished to sleep well spoke of ‘good’ and ‘evil’ before retiring. I disturbed…
The strongest and most evil spirits… rekindled the dozing passions. –every ordered society puts the passions to sleep… Time and again they reawakened the sense of comparison, of contradiction, of delight in what is new, daring, un-attempted; they forced humankind to pit opinion against opinion, ideal model against ideal model. Mostly by force of…
There is a constant moiling and toiling going on in morality –the effect of successful crimes (among which, for example, are included all innovations in moral thinking.) Daybreak by Friedrich Nietzsche, trans. by R. G. Collingwood aphorism 98 Nietzsche the wordsmith, was adept in three languages. A philologist by education, a specialist in classical…
