The nature of stoicism
is imagined
nature is indifferent
living is the opposite
of indifference
Day 3726, Beyond Good and Evil in short 9
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Day 3724, Beyond Good and Evil in short 7
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Plato sat in his cage
accused of performing
for the shadows
by a jealous onlooker
a failed teacher of freedom
Day 3723, Beyond Good and Evil in short 6
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Great philosophies
start at birth
and your family
they drive
toward their own goal
not truth
only your cousin
the scientists
may still be interested in
truth
Day 3722, Beyond Good and Evil in short 5
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The road of a philosopher to their truth
feels to them like the first
carefully orchestrated
steps
on a new beach
looking back
they see clearly their path
…
let everybody
make their reasonable first steps
in the sand
Day 3721, Beyond Good and Evil in short 4
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What is true
is not necessarily life
what is moral
is not necessarily true
what is life
a fiction?
Day 3720, Beyond Good and Evil in short 3
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My philosophy
wanders like the animal chooses
like birth itself
does not shape you
neither is a philosophy not shaped
by its birth
our philosophy
is not the measure of man
Day 3719, Beyond Good and Evil in short 2
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The angel and devil
are not distant cousins
but brother and sister
they can live apart
but come from one
this is perhaps
the new message
Day 3718, Beyond Good and Evil in short 1
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Why not rather untruth?
Is the search for truth
not a deep look in the mirror
where your-self
submits you
Day 3717, kingdom.
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Looking over my kingdom
I wait for the unknown
that I already know
Day 3716, for the sake.
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Friedrich Nietzsche
Daybreak
Book V
485 Distant perspectives. – A: But why this solitude? – B: I am not at odds with anyone. But when I am alone I seem to see my friends in a clearer and fairer light than when I am with them; and when I loved and appreciated music the most, I lived far from it. It seems I need a distant perspective if I am to think well of things.
487 Shame. – Here stands the handsome steed and paws the ground: it snorts, longs for the gallop and loves him who usually rides him – but oh shame! his rider cannot mount up onto his back today, he is weary.- This is the shame of the wearied philosopher before his own philosophy.
489 Friends in need. – Sometimes we notice that one of our friends belongs more to another than he does to us, and that his delicacy is troubled by and his selfishness inadequate to this decision: we then have to make things easier for him and estrange him from us.- This is likewise necessary when we adopt a way of thinking which would be ruinous to him: our love for him has to drive us, through an injustice which
Day 3715, why not.
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On the one hand
I like all the treasures you can find
In a pile of cables and electronic parts
On the other hand
I like detangling a wired mess
and sort things out
Day 3714, a line.
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I see many lines
going around endlessly
some even pass me
Day 3713, inside.
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And with some effort
I can come inside your walls
a pitch-dark feeling
Day 3712, broken.
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I had a small stone
and I broke all the windows
I was in and out
Day 3711, three.
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When I cross a street
I do avoid the manholes
for no good reason