From lack of repose our civilization is turning into a new barbarism. At no time have the active, that is to say the restless, counted for more. That is why one of the most necessary corrections to the character of mankind that have to be taken in hand is a considerable strengthening of the contemplative element in it.

— Nietzsche's Human All Too Human

The modern loss of faith does not concern just God or the hereafter. It involves reality itself and makes human life radically fleeting. Life has never been as fleeting as it is today. Not just human life, but the world in general is becoming radically fleeting. Nothing promises duration or substance. Given this lack of Being, nervousness and unease arise. The late-modern ego stands utterly alone. Even religions, [which] would remove the fear of death and produce a feeling of duration, have run their course.

— The Burnout Society

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Eyes again

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Pretty...

Pov: *it's عيون exam*
The voice in my head:

The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.

— W. L. Bragg, a Nobel laureate

It is miraculous that anyone with such severe problems and living such a life could have written anything at all, let alone the series of brilliant books that Nietzsche managed to complete in this period. He was plagued with such all-too-human difficulties as his eye problems, requiring him to resort to dictation much of the time, and to reliance on the assistance of others to put his manuscripts together, as well as making proof-reading a torment.

— Richard Schacht

Your eyelids can fall off in the extreme cold.

Ask the German soldiers in Russia 1941