Friedrich Nietzsche

Human, All Too Human

By Oneself Alone

618 Being philosophically minded. -We generally strive to acquire a single mental posture, a single class of opinions, for all the situations and events in life – that is what we are most likely to call being philosophically minded. But it may have a higher value for the enrichment of knowledge if we do not make ourselves uniform in this way, but instead listen to the soft voice of different situations in life; these bring their own particular views along with them. Thus, we take an attentive interest in the life and being of many things by not treating ourselves as fixed, stable, single individuals.