Wieland: or, the Transformation, an American Tale
THE MADMAN----Have you not heard of that madman who lit
a lantern in the bright morning hours, ran to the market place,
and cried incessantly: "I seek God! I seek God!"---As
many of those who did not believe in God were standing around
just then, he provoked much laughter. Has he got lost? asked one.
Did he lose his way like a child? asked ano
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“The world” is the general name for all the passions. When we wish to call the passions by a common name, we call them the world. But when we wish to distinguish them by their special names, we call them passions. The passions are the following: love of riches, desire for possessions, bodily pleasure from which comes sexual passion, love of honor w
... See morean enemy and challenger of God; and whosoever has experienced any of the consequences of such deep distrust, anything of the chills and the agonies of isolation to which such an unqualified difference of standpoint condemns him endowed with it, will also understand how often I must have sought relief and self-forgetfulness from any source—through a
... See moreFriedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche • Human, All Too Human A Book for Free Spirits
"Ah, my dearest ink-bleeder,
The wellspring that seethes within your soul spills onto parchment without your invitation, and that mere notion has left you in a state of provocative yet – dare I say – beautiful confusion. Isn't it wondrous, though nuanced with wonder? A gift innate, a gift inherent that asks only to be revered. Your words flow no... See more