I haven't had enough spare time to do much personal reading, so am no further ahead with Nietzsche.
One of the things that struck me, though, is that his explanation of the roles and workings of the Self, the Ego, the road to the Superman can easily be seen as analogous to the relationships between God, Man, Christ, and the road to God. Nietzsche's religious training comes through over and over again.
I find it fascinating to read a book and try to get into the head of the author to see things not only the way he sees them, but also from where he starts to see anything at all.
Anyway, I thought I'd share some quotes from this book that I like:
"Great star! What would your happiness be if you had not those for whom you shine!"
"One must be a sea to receive a polluted river and not be defiled."
"I need companions, living ones, not dead companions and corpses which I carry with me wherever I wish."
and I really like this one a lot:
"You say 'I' and you are proud of this word. But greater than this - although you will not believe in it - is your body and its great intelligence, which does not say 'I' but performs 'I'."
What conversations could be had around any one of these!
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Monday, December 3, 2007
In The Arena
The following is a speech given by President Theodore Roosevelt. He delivered it at the University of Paris at Sorbonne Paris, France on April 23 1910:
In The Arena
In the battle of life it is not the critic who counts;
not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled,
or where the doer of a deed could have done better.
The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena
Whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood
who strives valiantly
who errs and comes short again and again,
because there is no effort without error and shortcoming;
who does actually strive to do the deeds;
who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions,
spends himself in a worthy cause;
who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement;
and who, at the worst, if he fails,
at least fails while daring greatly,
so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls
who have tasted neither victory nor defeat.
In The Arena
In the battle of life it is not the critic who counts;
not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled,
or where the doer of a deed could have done better.
The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena
Whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood
who strives valiantly
who errs and comes short again and again,
because there is no effort without error and shortcoming;
who does actually strive to do the deeds;
who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions,
spends himself in a worthy cause;
who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement;
and who, at the worst, if he fails,
at least fails while daring greatly,
so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls
who have tasted neither victory nor defeat.
Cool Quotes
These are from Martin Luther King Jr. :
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.
I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.
Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'
Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.
Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: "If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?" But... the good Samaritan reversed the question: "If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?"
The time is always right to do what is right.
We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now.
We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.
We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.
We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
These are from Helen Keller:
I can see, and that is why I can be happy, in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden. I can see a God-made world, not a manmade world.
It gives me a deep comforting sense that "things seen are temporal and things unseen are eternal."
It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.
When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.
It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.
I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.
Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'
Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.
Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: "If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?" But... the good Samaritan reversed the question: "If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?"
The time is always right to do what is right.
We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now.
We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.
We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.
We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
These are from Helen Keller:
I can see, and that is why I can be happy, in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden. I can see a God-made world, not a manmade world.
It gives me a deep comforting sense that "things seen are temporal and things unseen are eternal."
It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.
When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.
It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.
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