Did you know
that we
humankind
the thinking animal
can only see a glimpse of a truth
from behind a transparent fencewe cling to
some even hold the fence as a truth
others stare through it in the distance
and see that distance as truth.
What do I think?
Of the truth?
Nothing.
Of the fence, we seem to face?
Just turn around and start walking
away from ittowards an other side
263 Path to equality. -A few hours of mountain climbing make a rogue and a saint into two fairly similar creatures. Exhaustion is the shortest path to equality and brotherhood-and freedom is finally added in by sleep.
35 Feelings and their origination in judgments. – ‘Trust your feelings!’ – But feelings are nothing final or original; behind feelings there stand judgments and evaluations which we inherit in the form of feelings (inclinations, aversions). The inspiration born of a feeling is the grandchild of a judgment – and often of a false judgment! – and in any event not a child of your own! To trust one’s feelings – means to give more obedience to one’s grandfather and grandmother and their grandparents than to the gods which are in us: our reason and our experience.
I was standing close to the edge
waiting
at the end of a ladder
nervous to see
what I would see
a valley can not hide the way upthat’s why I am
and the expectations that follow
they will slowly get closer
with each step
will I appreciate the distance that I will see
ones I stand up
there
on that edgeor would I just look down at this valley
or an other
17 Nature, good and evil – At first, men imagined themselves into nature: they saw everywhere themselves and their kind, especially their evil and capricious qualities, as it were hidden among the clouds, storms, beasts of prey, trees and plants: it was then they invented ‘ evil nature’. Then there came along an age when they again imagined themselves out of nature, the age of Rousseau: they were so fed up with one another they absolutely had to have a corner of the world into which man and his torments could not enter: they invented ‘ good nature’.