Forwarded from 1983
The mother gives the child what she takes from herself: sleep, the best food, in some instances even her health, her wealth.
Are all these really selfless states, however? Are these acts of morality miracles because they are, to use Schopenhauer's phrase, 'impossible and yet real'? Isn't it clear that, in all these cases, man is loving something of himself, a thought, a longing, an offspring, more than something else of himself; that he is thus dividing up his being and sacrificing one part for the other?
Friedrich Nietzsche
Are all these really selfless states, however? Are these acts of morality miracles because they are, to use Schopenhauer's phrase, 'impossible and yet real'? Isn't it clear that, in all these cases, man is loving something of himself, a thought, a longing, an offspring, more than something else of himself; that he is thus dividing up his being and sacrificing one part for the other?
Friedrich Nietzsche
However great the mental distance was between them, she found him above all kind, natural, humorous and very human. He was a person of exquisite sensitivity, tenderness and courtesy. He was scrupulously well mannered towards everybody he met, but even more so to ladies old and young. It made him a popular guest at the Pension de Genève, where they referred to him as ‘the dear, half-blind professor’ and performed small kindnesses for him that might make his life easier. Resa soon felt so free with him that she chattered about anything.
- I Am Dynamite
- I Am Dynamite
The art of losing isn’t hard to master
so many things seem filled with the intent
to be lost that their loss is no disaster.
Lose something every day. Accept the fluster
of lost door keys, the hour badly spent.
The art of losing isn’t hard to master.
-One Art by Elizabeth Bishop
so many things seem filled with the intent
to be lost that their loss is no disaster.
Lose something every day. Accept the fluster
of lost door keys, the hour badly spent.
The art of losing isn’t hard to master.
-One Art by Elizabeth Bishop