Tuesday, March 18, 2014

On the Will to Truth.

The Ascetic Ideal will only be overcome when the Will to Truth begins to see itself as a problem.

This was how Sadler described Nietzsche's point of view in conclusion of his lecture on the Genealogy of Morals.

I corroborate. When the line between what is found and what is created is so blurred that it becomes impossible to distinguish logic from delusion, the repetition of a conviction becomes Absurd.

One then foregoes the posture of the enlightened intellectual. Yet this cannot happen by a simple act of will. I may never know how I penetrated the thick forest of prickly thoughts and prejudices to arrive at a safe clearing where I can rest my head. Yet the struggle was inevitable. What is insane today was sane yesterday. A new leaf turns over. A new flower buds. Yet what is untrue now was not untrue before. Now is simply all I have, with memory trailing behind it like a tail.

dm.A.A.

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