Essay on Existence
The Philosophical Musings of Eric C. Nyman
My own work will appear eventually. Until then, read:
"What, if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: "This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more; and there will be nothing new in it, but every pain and every joy and every thought and sigh and everything unutterably small or great in your life will have to return to you, all in the same succession and sequence - even this spider and this moonlight between the trees, and even this moment and I myself. The eternal hourglass of existence is turned upside down again and again, and you with it, speck of dust!" Would you not throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse the demon who spoke thus?... Or how well disposed would you have to become to yourself and to life to crave nothing more fervently than this ultimate eternal confirmation and seal?"
"There is not enough love and goodness in the world for us to be permitted to give any of it away to imaginary things."
"Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies."
"There are no moral phenomena at all, but only moral interpretation of phenomena"
"Morality is the best of all devices for leading mankind by the nose."
"Faith: not wanting to know what is true."
"Madness is rare in individuals--but in groups, parties, nations, and ages it is the rule"
"At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid."
"The cure for love is still in most cases that ancient radical medicine: love in return."
"Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing."
"'Tis in ourselves that we are thus or thus. Our bodies are our gardens, to the which our wills are gardeners; so that if we will plant nettles or sow lettuce, set hyssop and weed thyme, supply it with one gender of herbs or distract it with many--either to have it sterile with idleness or manured with industry--why, the power and corrigible authority of this lies in our wills."
"That which is unquestioned can not truly be believed"
"Law and 'morality' must never intentionally coincide"
"The only thing as sacred as a human life is any other form of life"
"Once logic reveals that life is of no consequence, it can not dictate how to live"
"What, if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: "This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more; and there will be nothing new in it, but every pain and every joy and every thought and sigh and everything unutterably small or great in your life will have to return to you, all in the same succession and sequence - even this spider and this moonlight between the trees, and even this moment and I myself. The eternal hourglass of existence is turned upside down again and again, and you with it, speck of dust!" Would you not throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse the demon who spoke thus?... Or how well disposed would you have to become to yourself and to life to crave nothing more fervently than this ultimate eternal confirmation and seal?"
-Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
"There is not enough love and goodness in the world for us to be permitted to give any of it away to imaginary things."
-Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
"Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies."
-Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
"There are no moral phenomena at all, but only moral interpretation of phenomena"
-Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
"Morality is the best of all devices for leading mankind by the nose."
-Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
"Faith: not wanting to know what is true."
-Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
"Madness is rare in individuals--but in groups, parties, nations, and ages it is the rule"
-Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
"At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid."
-Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
"The cure for love is still in most cases that ancient radical medicine: love in return."
-Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
"Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing."
-Macbeth, from William Shakespeare's Macbeth
"'Tis in ourselves that we are thus or thus. Our bodies are our gardens, to the which our wills are gardeners; so that if we will plant nettles or sow lettuce, set hyssop and weed thyme, supply it with one gender of herbs or distract it with many--either to have it sterile with idleness or manured with industry--why, the power and corrigible authority of this lies in our wills."
-Iago, from William Shakespeare's Othello
"That which is unquestioned can not truly be believed"
-Eric C. Nyman
"Law and 'morality' must never intentionally coincide"
-Eric C. Nyman
"The only thing as sacred as a human life is any other form of life"
-Eric C. Nyman
"Once logic reveals that life is of no consequence, it can not dictate how to live"
-Eric C. Nyman
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Finally I have also started uploading my extensive MIDI collection, which you can find at http://midiarchive.cjb.net.
Contact me at [email protected] (which redirects to [email protected]), or if you happen to have ICQ my UIN is 13616937.
For those of you seeking reference on getting started on the Internet perhaps the Niemeinian Internet Empire's Links Section can be of service.
If you know a certian individual named Justin Weag and enjoy laughing at him then be sure to visit WEAGISMS2 at http://weagisms2.cjb.net.
I have made a Web Site for the JTHS Class of 2001 at http://jths2001.cjb.net.
Lake Winona is where I live; here is the Web Site that I created for its Civic Association.
Finally I have also started uploading my extensive MIDI collection, which you can find at http://midiarchive.cjb.net.
Contact me at [email protected] (which redirects to [email protected]), or if you happen to have ICQ my UIN is 13616937.