Day 2583, feelings.

aphorism, Daily picture

Friedrich Nietzsche

Daybreak
Book I

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.

Day 2581, edge.

Daily picture, Poetry
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 up
that’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 edge

or would I just look down at this valley
or an other

Day 2576, nature.

Daily picture, Quotes

Friedrich Nietzsche

Daybreak

Book I

 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’.