“Consider how every individual is affected by an overall philosophical justification of his way of living and thinking. He experiences it as a sun that shines especially for him, bestowing warmth, blessings, and fertility.”

—The Gay Science, §289 (edited excerpt).

“Even one’s thoughts one cannot reproduce entirely in words.”

—The Gay Science, §244.

Passengers on a tourist ship see work going on on the Brooklyn Bridge, 1946.

Ayrton Senna & girlfriend Adriane Galisteu flying over Sao Paolo 1994

The Trees

visual representations of how intense heartbreak and loneliness feel

Philip Glass