Waking up begins with saying am and now. That which has awoken then lies for a while staring up at the ceiling and down into itself until it has recognized I, and therefrom deduced I am, I am now. Here comes next, and is at least negatively reassuring; because here, this morning, is where it has expected to find itself: what’s called at home.
Forwarded from tomrum
Disgust relies on moral obtuseness. It is possible to view another human being as a slimy slug or a piece of revolting trash only if one has never made a serious good-faith attempt to see the world through that person’s eyes or to experience that person’s feelings. Disgust imputes to the other a subhuman nature. How, by contrast, do we ever become able to see one another as human? Only through the exercise of imagination.
- Martha Nussbaum, From Disgust to Humanity
- Martha Nussbaum, From Disgust to Humanity
“Appearance is for me the sublime consistency and interrelatedness of all knowledge perhaps is and will be the highest means to preserve the universality of dreaming, the mutual comprehension of all dreamers, and the continuation of the dream.”
—The Gay Science, §54 (edited excerpt).
—The Gay Science, §54 (edited excerpt).
“What makes a person noble? The feeling of heat in things that feel cold to everybody else, the discovery of values of which no scales have been invented yet, the offering of sacrifices on altars that are dedicated to an unknown god, a courage without desire for honors, and a self-sufficiency that overflows and gives to men and things. It was this rare standard and an unawareness to it that made a person noble. To become the advocate of that which most preserves the species might be the ultimate form and refinement in which noblemindedness reveals itself on earth.”
—The Gay Science, §55 (edited).
—The Gay Science, §55 (edited).