Thought Trajectories

[thoughttrajectories]

We must therefore allow certain people their solitude and not be so stupid, as we so often are, as to pity them for it.

Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human

[thoughttrajectories]

But this is an old and never-ending story...as soon as a philosophy begins to believe in itself, it always creates the world in its own image, it cannot do otherwise; philosophy is this tyrannical drive itself, the most spiritual will to power, to 'creation of the world,' to causa prima.

Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

[thoughttrajectories]

For every drive is tyrannical: and it is as such that it tries to philosophize.

Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

[thoughttrajectories]

"...every great philosophy has hitherto been a confession on the part of its author and a kind of involuntary and unconscious memoir."

Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

[thoughttrajectories]

The greatest hazard of all, losing the self, can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all. No other loss can occur so quietly.

Kierkegaard, The Sickness Unto Death

[thoughttrajectories]

A self is the last thing the world cares about and the most dangerous thing of all for a person to show signs of having.

Kierkegaard, The Sickness Unto Death

[thoughttrajectories]

It seems that, in order to inscribe themselves in the hearts of humanity with eternal demands, all great things have first to wander the earth as monstrous and fear-inspiring grotesques...

Nietzsche

[lafemmeloup]

“Grief, when it comes, is nothing like we expect it to be.”

— Joan Didion, On grief 

[thoughttrajectories]

Above all, one should not wish to divest existence of its rich ambiguity: that is a dictate of good taste, gentlemen, the taste of reverence for everything that lies beyond your horizon.

Nietzsche

[thoughttrajectories]

Unless I discover the alchemical trick of turning this muck into gold, I am lost.

Nietzsche, in a letter to Overbeck

[thoughttrajectories]

"...the path to one's own heaven always leads through the voluptuousness of one's own hell."

Nietzsche

[noosphe-re]

“Networked digital information technology looms ever larger in all of our lives. It shapes our perceptions, conditions the choices available to us, and remakes our experience of space and time. It requires us to master arcane bodies of knowledge, forcing an into a constant cycle of obsolescence and upgrade that, with startling rapidity, makes nonsense of our most diligent attempts to reckon with it. It even inhibits our ability to think meaningfully about the future, tending to reframe any conversation about the reality we want to live in as a choice between varying shades of technical development. The extent to which it organizes the everyday is one of the defining characteristics of our era, and for all the apparent power it offers us, our attempts to master it observably leave most of us feeling overwhelmed and exhausted. If we are to have any hope of retaining our agency and exerting some measure of control over the circumstances of our being in the years to come, we will need to know a lot more about where these radical technologies came from, how they accomplish their work in the world, and why they appear to as in the way that they do. What follows is an attempt to shed light on all of these questions.”

— Adam Greenfield, Radical Technologies: The Design of Everyday Life

[nasa]

With unearthly jet-streams, many massive swirling cyclones and winds running deep into its atmosphere — new data from our Juno Mission to Jupiter unveils discoveries and clues about the gas-giant planet. 

This composite image, derived from data collected by the Jovian Infrared Auroral Mapper (JIRAM) instrument aboard our Juno spacecraft, shows the central cyclone at the planet’s north pole and the eight cyclones that encircle it.

However, as tightly spaced as the cyclones are, they have remained distinct, with individual morphologies over the seven months of observations. The question is, why do they not merge? We are beginning to realize that not all gas giants are created equal.

Read more about these discoveries HERE. 

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[thoughttrajectories]

Formerly, one wished to acquire fame and be spoken of. Now that is no longer enough because the market has grown too large; nothing less than screaming will do.

Nietzsche

[thoughttrajectories]

"We fail to recognize our best power and underestimate ourselves, the contemplatives, just a little. We are neither as proud nor as happy as we might be."

Nietzsche

[thoughttrajectories]

All life must pass through the fire of contradiction; contradiction is the driving force and innermost nature of life.

Schelling

[thoughttrajectories]

"Whenever the reformation of a whole people fails and it is only sects that elevate their leader, we may conclude that the people had become relatively heterogeneous and has begun to move away from rude herd instincts and the morality of mores: they are hovering in an interesting intermediate position that is usually dismissed as a mere decay of morals and corruption, although in fact it proclaims that the egg is approaching maturity and that the eggshell is about to be broken."

Nietzsche