Meditations

“When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love.”

[nousrose]

Man is already weak at the moment he searches for laws and rules according to which he shall think and act. Out of his own being the strong individual controls his way of thinking and doing.

Friedrich Nietzsche, Fighter for Freedom

Rudolf Steiner

[rosscmpbll]

Do you learn for the knowledge gained? 

Do you learn for the wealth gained?

Neither?

What do you want?

Happiness without suffering. Which you can't have. So take control and get to work on your dreams. 

Either that or become a dead weight that drags us all down or maybe forces the rest of us forward as we try to fix you. 

It's relative after all.

[dutchfruitjar]

Sometime people don’t want to hear the truth because they don’t want their illusions destroyed.

Nietzsche (via dutchfruitjar)

[sisyphean-revolt]

People are afraid of looking into themselves. Many tremble slavishly when they can no longer escape the questions: What have I done, what have I become, and who am I?

Friedrich Schleiermacher Monologue II: Self-Examination (via sisyphean-revolt)

[rosscmpbll]

Mark Kozelek & Jimmy Lavalle | 'Perils From the Sea' [2013]

[thirdity]

“I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should appear like a fool but be wise.” – Montesquieu, Pensées

[rosscmpbll]

I desired to live worthily as long as I lived, and to leave after my life, to the men who should come after me, the memory of me in good works.

Alfred the Great.

[rosscmpbll]

“The saddest thing about any man is that he be ignorant, and the most exciting thing is that he knows.”

Alfred the Great.

[rosscmpbll]

My idea is that every specific body strives to become master over all space, extend its will to power, and thrust back all that resists its extension, but it continually encounters similar efforts on the part of other bodies and ends by coming to an arrangement with those of them that are sufficiently related to it: thus they then conspire together for power.

F. Nietzsche, The Will to Power, §636 (edited excerpt).

[thirdity]

“Silence is true wisdom’s best reply.” – Euripides, Unidentified Plays, Fragment 977

[rosscmpbll]

It is a self-deception of philosophers and moralists to imagine that they escape decadence by opposing it.

F. Nietzsche, The Will to Power, §435 (excerpt).

[rosscmpbll]

What is needed above all is an absolute skepticism toward all inherited concepts.

F. Nietzsche, The Will to Power, §409 (excerpt).

[spaceisart]

[fyp-philosophy]

Don’t waste the rest of your time here worrying about other people—unless it affects the common good. It will keep you from doing anything useful. You’ll be too preoccupied with what so-and-so is doing, and why, and what they’re saying, and what they’re thinking, and what they’re up to, and all the other things that throw you off and keep you from focusing on your own mind.

Marcus Aurelius, Meditations (via fyp-philosophy)

[philosophybits]

Simplify, simplify, simplify.

Henry David Thoreau (via philosophybits)

[nahchill-imgay]

[rosscmpbll]

R.I.P Buddy - You will be missed.