Credo

Words to live by. Brilliant and beautiful.

What makes one heroic? - To approach at the same time one's highest suffering and one's brightest hope.
What do you believe in? - In this: that the weight of all things must be determined anew.
What does your consciousness say? - You should become who you are.
Where lie your greatest dangers? - In compassion.
What do you love in others? - My hopes.
Whom do you call bad? - He who always wants to put people to shame.
What is most human in you? - To spare someone shame.
What is the seal of having become free? - No longer to be ashamed before oneself.
-Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science, 268-275

(I promise this blog won't always be philosophy-oriented)