Dreams of Imprintedness

Whoever writes in blood and aphorisms does not want to be read. They want to be learned by heart.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
"Of Reading and Writing"
1883

The Diggers Revisited

The good individuals of every age are those who bury the old ideas in the depths of the earth and bear fruit with them, the agriculturalists of the spirit.

Friedrich Nietzsche
1882

Unselfishness' Selfish Motive 1

When they feel they are unselfish, they think there's no reason to bother with truth.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Daybreak 456
1881

Creating Hammers

Real philosophers reach for the future with a creative hand. And for them, everything that has ever existed becomes a means, an instrument, a hammer. Their knowing is creating.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Beyond Good and Evil 211
1886

The Enduring Significance of Stupidity

Imprudence may deceive itself, but it cannot alter the true value of things.

Boethius
The Consolation of Philosophy
Pavia, 520 A.D.

Consolatio Philosophiae 2

Why then are miserable men in awe
When tyrants rage impotently?
If first you rid yourself of hope and fear
You have disarmed the tyrant's wrath:
But whosoever quakes in hope or fear,
Drifting or losing mastery,
Has cast away his shield, has left his place,
And holds the chain with which he will be held.

Boethius
The Consolation of Philosophy
Pavia, 520 A.D.

Consolatio Philosophiae 1

I fought many a great battle against the reckless forces of folly.

Boethius
The Consolation of Philosophy
Pavia, 520 A.D.