Do I look like someone who has something to do here on earth?’ —That’s what I’d like to answer the busybodies who inquire into my activities.
— Emil Cioran, The Trouble with Being Born, 1973
— Emil Cioran, The Trouble with Being Born, 1973
The problem of responsibility would have a meaning only if we had been consulted before our birth and had consented to be precisely who we are.
“What man is begins to betray itself when his talent decreases and stops showing what he can do. Talent is finery, and finery is a hiding place.”
—F. Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, §130 (edited).
—F. Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, §130 (edited).