Tag: Friedrich Nietzsche

The Closest To God – 10th May 2026

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Inspired by Why did Nietzsche encourage cruelty? by Elyja on medium.com.
The quote in the last line is from Dostoevsky’s Notes From Underground.

Are we cruel?
Is it divine?

Will you share this long, tortured road with me?

Gather to enjoy the lopping of heads
– a terrible show not to be missed.

The Gods have never been soft;
yet we see ourselves as more humane,

and search for new entertainments.

Turning the sword inwards,
towards the shadow formed

with nowhere else to go.

A self-manufactured torture chamber.
A slow strangulation of the anxious beast,
made ‘into real positive delight.’

Today’s Daily Stoic poem:

Don’t Be Inspired, Be Inspirational

Lost in a gaze of wonderment
How inspired may you be?
Emulate, imitate the virtues
To animate your esprit

No Rest – 9th October 2022

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After death, you are put into a room
With a TV and some snacks
You will watch your whole life replayed
Perhaps to reflect on what it lacks
A minute-by-minute repeat
To observe each success and mistake
You may pause at any point
It’s a long time and you’ll need a break
After a lifetime looking back
You will be born to the world again
Taking the wisdom learned
Which the gods tried to explain

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Today I’m feeling:
Happy and calm
Today I’m grateful for:
The man selling coconut water and pandan smoothies. Damn, they are delicious!
The best thing about today was:
Another long ass bike ride around the area I had discovered a couple of days ago. Google Maps lead me nicely astray again and I’ll have to wash my shoes yet again…

I took this picture because P’ti was squashed up against the window like this at Utopia this morning. So cute.

The Curse – 5th March 2022

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My body is a time machine
My brain, its brain, it’s enemy
Fighting against itself
Today is another step in time
A footprint in the snow
Disappeared in its melt
Yesterday or nineteen seventy-nine
A heartbeat never remembered
A breath never recalled
The curse of conscious man

A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions – as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.

Friedrich Nietzsche