Philosophy

Day 2877, driven.

Daily picture, Quotes

Friedrich Nietzsche

The Will To Power
Book Two: Critique of Highest Values

259 Insight: all evaluation is made from a definite perspective: that of the preservation of the individual, a community, a race, a  state, a church, a faith, a culture.- Because we forget that valua­tion is always from a perspective, a single individual contains within him a vast confusion of contradictory valuations and con­sequently of contradictory drives. This is the expression of the diseased condition in man, in contrast to the animals in which all existing instincts answer to quite definite tasks.

Day 2869, nihilism.

Daily picture, Quotes

Several notes from Nietzsche written in 1987 are to be found in the book The Will to Power, a collection of his notes published after his death and not meant for publication. 

Friedrich Nietzsche

The Will to Power
Book One: European Nihilism

What does nihilism mean? That the highest values evaluate themselves. The aim is lacking; “why?” finds no answer.

The supreme values in whose service man should live, especially when they were very hard on him and exacted a high price – these social values were erected over man to strengthen their voice, as if they were commands of God, as “reality,” as the “true” world, as a hope and future world. Now that the shabby origin of these values is becoming clear, the universe seems to have lost value, seems “meaningless”-but that is only a transitional stage. 

Values and their changes are related to increases in the power of those positing the values. The measure of unbelief, of permitted “freedom of the spirit” as an expression of an increase in power. “Nihilism” an ideal of the highest degree of powerfulness of the spirit, the over-richest life-partly destructive, partly ironic.

Day 2867, old poem.

Daily picture, Poetry
Poem in Dutch, 2006
Through the snow I continue where the path ends

the path that took me to that which is unexpected

thinking we know where we are going understand

what am I doing here what am I doing in the snow

I can give you reason or two maybe three or more

so what is true of all of this or what will value have

the cold snow on the ground I fall into is full of this

unthinkable thoughts a never-conceivable realities

without reason it wants to give anything the truth

It happens spontaneously in passing just like that

don't think too much think like a child every day

without a past dare to fall into the cold snow

do not be afraid of the wet or the blame

wet cloth can dry the days disappear

disappearing into the horizons

the one that is behind you

full of old imaginations

heavy as a burden

denied bitterness

you will forget

what it was 

as a child

to be to

fall in

snow

Wet

am 

I



that

is like

to become

a child

play