Fear of Death and a Fear of Life (Physiological and Psychological Death)
We are generally afraid to become that which we can glimpse in our most perfect moments…We enjoy and even thrill to the godlike possibilities we see in ourselves…And yet we simultaneously shiver with weakness, awe, and fear before these very same possibilities.
The man who…was forced into an oppressive narrowness and regularity of custom, impatiently tore himself apart, persecuted himself, gnawed away at himself, grew upset, and did himself damage… Continue reading →
To call the taming of an animal its ‘improvement’ is in our ears almost a joke. Whoever knows what goes on in menageries is doubtful whether the beasts in them are ‘improved’. Continue reading →
Injustice and fifth they may throw after the lonely one: but, my brother, if you would be a star, you must not shine less for them because of that. And beware of the good and the just! They like to crucify those who invent their own virtue for themselves- they hate the lonely one.
Friedrich Nietzsche- Thus Spoke Zarathustra
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