من سخرية القدر أنّ علاقته بأُخته أبد ما كانت جيدة والمشاكل بينهم هواي. قبلما يفقد عقله بفترة قريبة كاللها أنّه قرر ينهي علاقته بيها للأبد، ودائمًا جان يوصف عائلته (وأُخته بالأخص) بأنّهم مثل سلاسل chains تقيّده. رغم أنّه كدر يتحرر من كل القيود الثانية، لكن هاي القيود بعدها تسببله "المرض" اللي دائمًا جان يوصفه بـ :
chain-sickness (Kettenkrankheit)
chain-sickness (Kettenkrankheit)
Man cannot live without such untruths. He cannot bear life without measuring reality by purely invented fictional systems such as philosophy, astrology and religion. [...] Man had originally been free, but he had bricked himself into beliefs, madly constructing Zoroastrian observatories, Greek and Roman temples, Egyptian tomb pyramids and Christian cathedrals. He chose to erect an architecture of fear and awe, whose very foundation is the terror that death might lead to nothing more than oblivion.
Philosophers are no better than cunning pleaders for their prejudices, sly spokesmen for their ideas which they baptise ‘truths’. Philosophers are snake oil salesmen of the soul. Their doctrines amount to edicts imposing self-tyranny upon human nature. Philosophy always creates the world in its own image; it cannot do otherwise. Philosophy is glorification of universalisation. It is imposition. It seeks to make all existence exist only after its own image.
As for science, it is no better. The conclusions of the knowledge-microscopists provide no more truth than do the philosophers. The meaning of science is not religion. Yet science, somehow, is becoming substituted for religion. The modern world is mistaking scientific theory for moral dogma.
Distrusting all system-builders, Nietzsche steadfastly refuses to build a system for us. He loves to contradict himself in the realm of ideas, and to force us into the position of the free spirit who is independent of him.
To establish whether one is ready for independence one must not cling to anything, not even a sense of one’s own detachment. Few are made for such independence. It is the privilege of the tightrope walkers, those who are daring to the point of recklessness.
To establish whether one is ready for independence one must not cling to anything, not even a sense of one’s own detachment. Few are made for such independence. It is the privilege of the tightrope walkers, those who are daring to the point of recklessness.
Yet men have come to such a pass that they frequently starve, not for want of necessaries, but for want of luxuries.
- Walden, by H. D. Thoreau
- Walden, by H. D. Thoreau
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Yet men have come to such a pass that they frequently starve, not for want of necessaries, but for want of luxuries. - Walden, by H. D. Thoreau
لكنّ المرءَ قد وصلَ به الحال إلى أنْ يتضوّر جوعًا، ليس بسبب حاجتِه لما هو ضروريٌ في الحياة، بل بسبب رغبَتِه بما هو كمالي.
- والْدِن، لـِ هنري ديفيد ثورو
- والْدِن، لـِ هنري ديفيد ثورو