Whoever needs something other than a puppet is not part of this community. to play: to put oneself in play, to surpass the given in play, the content: only what is favorable to the game. Perhaps also on the mad philosopher: community? or mystic? -excerpt On Nietzsche Notes by Georges Bataille…
I hesitate to mention an inclination to write-a-book. Why, in god’s name would I want to do that? The bookstore is filled with titles, and on the internet a tidal wave of material, much self published. What portion of those publications, paper or virtual are likely to be read? The question is unanswerable. In…
You have already grasped that Sisyphus is the absurd hero. He is, as much through his passions as through his torture. His scorn of the gods, his hatred of death, and his passion for life won him that unspeakable penalty in which the whole being is exerted toward accomplishing nothing. This is the price…
We can hardly find the nothingness other than precisely where we would not like to go. Temptation is in a sense the extreme moment of sensuality. It is to the extent that we reject it that it makes us afraid, that sensuality has the power to make us attain nothingness. Insofar as temptation is…
When one no longer finds God great, one no longer finds God anywhere; God must be denied or created. –excerpt The Will To Power, II. bk. 3 §422 by Friedrich Nietzsche Sunday morning, winter weather has moderated. The sun is shining, a bonus for a mid-western winter’s day. Very soon those with a lingering…
Theory of chance. The soul, a selective and self-nourishing entity, extremely shrewd and perpetually creative (this creative force is usually overlooked!) is conceived only as passive. To recognize the active force, the creative force among the contingencies: chance itself is only the clash of creative impulses. –excerpt The Will To Power, II, bk. 4,…
We should reconsider cruelty and open our eyes… Almost everything we call “higher culture” is based upon the spiritualization and deepening of cruelty: This is my proposition. That wild beast has not really been killed; it lives and flourishes, it has merely become — divine. What constitutes the painful voluptuousness of tragedy is cruelty;…
A real man wants two things:danger and play. Therefore he wants womanas the most dangerous plaything. –excerpt Thus Spoke Zarathustra, pt. 1, On Little Old and Young Woman, by Friedrich Nietzsche Nietzsche, a prolific writer throughout his professional life, said many outrageous things, a challenge to life-as-we-know-it. Reading Nietzsche, I have learned to be…
January 28 at 9AM is showing 19 degrees F outside and snow is coming. Starbucks is filled with the “Saturday crowd,” the atmosphere infused with the babble of voices. Life goes on — until it doesn’t. I read this in the New York Times summary of the news which is received by email daily:…
We are not thinking frogs, nor objectifying and registering mechanisms with their innards removed: ceaselessly we have to give birth to our thoughts out of our pain, and maternally, endow them with all that we have of blood, heart, fire, joy, passion, torment, conscience, and fate. –Excerpt, The Gay Science, Preface §3, by Friedrich…
