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’.

Day 2569, supposed.

Daily picture, Quotes

Friedrich Nietzsche

Human, all too human II
Mixed opinions and maxims

107 Three-quarter strength. -A work that is supposed to make an impression of health should be produced at no more than three-quarters of its creator’s strength. If, on the contrary, he has gone to his furthest limit, the work will stimulate the spectator so much that he will find its tension alarming. All good things have something negligent about them and lie like cows upon the meadow.