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“Those who know that they are profound strive for clarity. Those who would like to seem profound to the crowd strive for obscurity. For the crowd believes that if it cannot see to the bottom of something it must be profound.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs
Tagged: Clarity, Defining Quality, Obscurity, Timid, How To Write, Writing Strategies
“To find everything profound—that is an inconvenient trait. It makes one strain one's eyes all the time, and in the end one finds more than one might have wished.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs
Tagged: Eye, Profound Seeing, Seeing the Profound, Thought Catalog, Create Difference
“Woe, when you feel homesick for the land as if it had offered more freedom—and there is no longer any 'land.'”
— Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs
Tagged: Freedom, Groundless Ground, Homesick, To The Ocean
“Mystical explanations are considered deep. The truth is that they are not even superficial.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs
Tagged: Into The Void, Superficial, Theology
“The popular medical formulation of morality that goes back to Ariston of Chios, 'virtue is the health of the soul,' would have to be changed to become useful, at least to read: 'your virtue is the health of your soul.' For there is no health as such, and all attempts to define a thing that way have been wretched failures. Even the determination of what is healthy for your body depends on your goal, your horizon, your energies, your impulses, your errors, and above all on the ideals and phantasms of your soul. Thus there are innumerable healths of the body; and the more we allow the unique and incomparable to raise its head again, and the more we abjure the dogma of the 'equality of men,' the more must the concept of a normal health, along with a normal diet and the normal course of an illness, be abandoned by medical men Only then would the time have come to reflect on the health and illness of the soul, and to find the peculiar virtue of each man in the health of his soul. In one person, of course, this health could look like its opposite in another person. Finally, the great question would still remain whether we can really dispense with illness — even for the sake of our virtue — and whether our thirst for knowledge and self-knowledge in particular does not require the sick soul as much as the healthy, and whether, in brief, the will to health alone, is not a prejudice, cowardice, and perhaps a bit of very subtle barbarism and backwardness.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs
Tagged: Equality, Health, Medicine, The Great Reversal
“The pleasures of writing include acting like exaggerations of your most-extreme self. ”
— Chuck Palahniuk, Reddit.com
Tagged: Extreme, Writing
“'No one can or should halt sacrifice. Sacrifice is not destruction, sacrifice is the foundation stone of what is to come. Have you not had monasteries? Have not countless thousands gone into the desert? You should carry the monastery in yourself. The desert is within you. The desert calls you and draws you back, and if you were fettered to the world of this time with iron, the call of the desert would break all chains. Truly, I prepare you for solitude.'”
— Carl Jung, The Red Book: A Reader's Edition (Philemon)
Tagged: Chains, Desert, Sacrifice, Solitude
“Why is this so hard for so many of us? It's not because we need the email for our productivity, but because we are addicted to the possibility that there's a great tidbit in there somewhere. Like compulsive gamblers at a slot machine rewarded with a few quarters every dozen tries, we are trained to keep opening emails in the hope of a little shot of serotonin — a pleasant ping from the world of chronos. We must retrain ourselves instead to see the reward in the amount of time we get to spend in the reverie of solo contemplation or live engagement with another human being.”
— Douglas Rushkoff, Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now
Tagged: Emai, Email, Time Managment
“The way we view the world, the ultimate barometer of quality is: if it gets shared, it's quality. If someone wants to toil in obscurity, if that makes them happy, that's fine. Not everybody has to change the world.”
— Emerson Spartz, newyorker.com
Tagged: Cultural Elitism vs. Democratic Consumerism, Defining Quality, High Power, Obscurity, Quality
“I realized that influence was inextricably linked to impact—the more influence you had, the more impact you could create... The ability to make things go viral felt like the closest that we could get to having a human superpower.”
— Emerson Spartz, newyorker.com
Tagged: Cultural Elitism vs. Democratic Consumerism, Impact vs. Infulence, Viral, Viral Media