Lord Nietzsche does not mean that women are dangerous in themselves——they are, for the most part, creatures of silliness & harmless trifling—but that man's own attachment to women invites dangers of an entirely self-inflicted sort.

One MUST remain a child of nature.

I try to live my life, but I keep thinking about this xweet…

“I no longer know what I am / Or what I’m doing.”

So very often, we wait to be signaled what to think about a subject/topic by a respected individual we consider to be intellectually superior to ourselves. We learn this from childhood, and never really grow out of it.

I ❤️ Rossini

To think of man as a plant. How to nourish it? How to ensure it produces its fruits? How to help it blossom to its full potential? …What exactly is this plant’s full potential?

“Things have changed…” Annndd here comes another chimp out. Checks calendar…Right on queue.

Aesthetically pleasing morning motivation 📻…

I’m trying, but…

The masses…

Striking lines from The Red and the Black: “Such was the effect of the power and, if I may put it so, the grandeur of the passionate impulses that convulsed this ambitious young man's soul. With this strange being, almost every day was a day of storms.”

Seems pretty ripe for opportunity. “I saw civilization’s crown lying in the gutter. I picked it up…”

Is this still the case? “The more one rises toward the front ranks of society, thought Julien to himself, the more one finds delightful manners.”