"We must therefore allow certain people their solitude and not be so stupid, as we so often are, as to pity them for it."
#Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human
As soon as a philosophy begins to believe in itself, it always creates the world in its own image, it cannot do otherwise; philosophy is this tyrannical drive itself, the most spiritual will to power, to 'creation of the world,' to causa prima.
#Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
"...every great philosophy has hitherto been a confession on the part of its author and a kind of involuntary and unconscious memoir."
Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
The greatest hazard of all, losing the self, can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all. No other loss can occur so quietly.
Kierkegaard, The Sickness Unto Death
"Both works show that the repression of human nature results in a reality more frightening than that which the repression seeks to conceal."
@CarolineHagood on THE GIVER and THE TIME MACHINE: https://t.co/SHlsuwrIsb
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