Zarathustra's Return

[Nonson]

Man holds things in his mind which do not yet exist, and he strives to enter into them. All the while suffering miserably so that the imaginaries may have their existence.


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Without knowing it, women act as if they were taking away the stones from the path of the wandering mineralogist in order that he might not strike his foot against them - when he has gone out for the very purpose of striking against them. [Nietzsche]


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My friends, you ask after the school of suffering, the forge of destiny. Don't you know? No, you who are forever talking of "the people" and such like, you do not know. I am speaking of solitude.
Solitude is the path men most fear, so that those men who walk alone are called mad or sick, because they think it is best to discourage themselves from taking such a path.
And when you hear people call these men mad, don't you feel the blood rushing to your cheeks? As though it might have been nobler and worthier of you to become one of those madmen?
[from "Zarathustra's Return" by Hermann Hesse]


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My aim, on any forum, is to make people think. Certain people are ready for the great truths, while others can barely accept the smallest of truths. Wherever I go there follows me an array of truths culled from the magnificant thoughts of past Thinkers, from the very great to the exceedingly small. For even the smallest of those Thinkers of the past can serve as a lamp that is greater than anything any mortal has ever imagined. While I do in no way necessarily agree with every sentiment expressed by the Thinkers, I do consider them, to be the epitome; to be medicine most needed for the unsound minds of today. Nonson-Along This Path

Nonson
03.31.01

[Irinka]

Your posts are a pleasure to read whether I agree with them or not. I always appreciate a versatile mind.