Then came human beings, they wanted to cling but there was nothing to cling to.
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| — | (via lovepixies) |
Possessing opinions is like possessing fish, assuming one has a fish pond. One has to go fishing and needs some luck—then one has one’s own fish, one’s own opinions. I am speaking of live opinions, of live fish. Others are satisfied if they own a cabinet of fossils—and in their heads, ‘convictions.’
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| — | Nietzche, in Seventy-Five Aphorisms: from Five Volumes . (The Wanderer and His Shadow) |
From what you know and measure, you must take leave, at least for a time. Only after having left town, you see how high it’s towers rise above the houses.
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| — | Nietzsche, in Seventy-Five Amorphisms: From Five Volumes (The Wanderer and His Shadow) |
You are the inner cause of all outer effects. Man is responsible for his own frustrations and limitations because he is the one who has created the outer values he enslaves himself with. Within his ability to generate the outer values to assign to measurements of purpose, man has created the potential tools of his own individual destruction.
We must all now realise the we are the ones fashioning the tools of measurement, that we cannot allow the outer values assigned to levels of purpose which we have created to become the crosses that we nail ourselves to.
The values we have generated in order to measure purpose have become the masters, and we the slaves. It’s time for all beings of conscious awareness to reclaim their power, and understand their proper place within the reality that they are constantly shaping.
This shift in awareness will not occur all at once. It starts within the individual.
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| — | Metaphysical Observer (via metobserver) |
What’s the difference between a fertilized egg, a corporation, and a woman? One of them isn’t considered a person in Oklahoma.
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| — | Kristen Schaal on The Daily Show (via kateoplis) |
Every one interprets everything in terms of his own experience. If you say anything which does not touch a precisely similar spot in another man’s brain, he either misunderstands you, or doesn’t understand you at all.
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| — | Aleister Crowley, Diary of a Drug Fiend (via misanthropyaddict) |
Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.
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| — | Notebooks, Albert Camus (via drunkonliterature) |
