life

Day 2787, ourselves.

Daily picture, Quotes

Friedrich Nietzsche

Twilight of the idols

Expeditions of an Untimely Man

26. We no longer have a sufficiently high estimate of ourselves when we communicate. Our true experiences are not garrulous. They could not communicate themselves if they wanted to: they lack words. We have already grown beyond whatever we have words for. In all talking there lies a grain of contempt. Speech, it seems, was devised only for the average, medium, communicable. The speaker has already vulgarized himself by speaking. – From a moral code for deaf-mutes and other philosophers.

Day 2782, old mirror.

Daily picture, Poetry 
I am looking in an old mirror forgotten 
stored in the attic
where I found it

the silver lining underneath my face 
cracked
while seeing myself in a dozen
Interrupted facets 
outlined by dirty decay

I move away
but I only get smaller
though now I can see 
that it once was all clear.

~

I like the delicate frame of this so familiar 
this frame with that little bit of dust on it
seemingly stuck.

Day 2780, nonsensical.

Daily picture, Quotes

Friedrich Nietzsche

Human, All Too Human II
Mixed Opinions and Maxims

19 The picture of life. -The task of painting the picture of life, however often it may have been set by poets and philosophers, is nevertheless nonsensical: even in the hands of the greatest painter-thinkers only pictures and miniatures from a single life, that is, from their own lives, have been produced- and nothing else is even possible. Amid what is becoming, some­ thing that is itself becoming cannot reflect itself as fixed and enduring, as any specific “thing.”

45 Not taking things too hard. – Getting bedsores is unpleasant and yet no proof against the good points of the course of treat­ ment that decided upon putting us in bed. – Humans who have lived outside themselves for a long time and then finally turned to the philosophical inward, interior life know that there also exist bedsores of heart and soul. This is not there­ fore an argument against the whole of the lifestyle they have chosen, but it does make a few small exceptions and apparent relapses necessary.