Friday 21 July 2017

Thought 561: Nietzsche's Courage


Nietzsche's courage was to correctly
perceive the lie of metaphysics,
of the invisible true world.

Thursday 20 July 2017

Thought 560: On Articulation in Sheet Music


The fidelity to articulation
should not come at the expense
of the felicity of musicality.

Wednesday 19 July 2017

Wednesday 12 July 2017

Tuesday 11 July 2017

French 4: Pourquoi ne pas voter ?


Cela légitime la classe dirigeante.

Monday 10 July 2017

Sunday 9 July 2017

Saturday 8 July 2017

Friday 7 July 2017

Thought 559: What Is Discipline?


What is discipline?

Discipline is forcing
oneself: doing the 
necessary in spite
 of not being in
the mood to do it.

Tuesday 4 July 2017

Thought 558: Aphoristic Elucidation III


Aphorism

'"All truth is simple."
—Isn't that a double lie?—'

—Nietzsche,
Twilight of the Idols
or How to Philosophise
with a Hammer,
Arrows and Epigrams,
§.4

Elucidation

All truth is not 
simple, therefore
'all truth is simple'
is a lie in its content
as well as its 
simple form.

Monday 3 July 2017

Thought 557: Emotional Thought Hygiene


Thoughts and emotions
need to be cleansed
just like parts of
the body do.

Sunday 2 July 2017

Thought 556: Disagreeing with a Thinker


Disagreeing with a thinker,
when it is more than a thoughtless, 
superficial, and presumptuous dismissal,
can help us further our own thinking,
for it has been said that

'One repays a teacher poorly if
one always remains only a student.' 

—Friedrich Nietzsche,
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
—A Book for Everyone and Nobody,
First Part, The Speeches of Zarathustra,
22. On the Bestowing Virtue, §.3

I will view SOT as
a success if, in being
disagreed with, it has
helped others in their
understanding.

Saturday 1 July 2017

Thought 555: Limitation of the Work Ethic as Moral Paradigm


When the Work Ethic
starts justifying the harmful
and needless wastage of
energy and resource, 
it has reached its
limitation.

(That work
should have
become the
religion of 
civilised
peoples
the moment
it was least
necessary
for survival
is as good
an indicator
of the purgatorial
human condition
as any other.)