“Is not our love of our neighbor really just a lust for new possessions? And likewise our love of knowledge, truth and anything new? Gradually we become tired of the old, of what we safely possess, and stretch out our hands again. Possessions are generally diminished by possession, or our pleasure in trying to change ourselves into something new again and again. To tire of some possession is to tire of ourselves.”

—The Gay Science, §14 (edited excerpt).

Salvador Dali painting while swimming in Venice, Italy, 1947

by Junya Watanabe (2006)

Claudia Cardinale

Earthrise, taken on December 24, 1968, by Apollo 8 astronaut William Anders