Benjamin / ictus

Bellem, Aalter, België

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the man who knew too much

confession: acually I'm a closet Platonist, but I gave the pc answer

chopping wood is a great cardio-vascular work-out, all you need is an axe and some trees / first person ever to chop wood in a hunch t-shirt

This, incidentally, is almost the whole weakness of Nietzsche, whom some are representing as a bold and strong thinker. No one will deny that he was a poetical and suggestive thinker; but he was quite the reverse of strong. He was not at all bold. He never put his own meaning before himself in bald abstract words; as did Aristotle and Calvin, and even Karl Marx, the hard, fearless men of thought. Nietzsche always escaped a question by a physical metaphor, like a cheery minor poet. He said, beyond good and evil, because he had not the courage to say, more good than good and evil, because he had not courage to say, more evil than good and evil. Had he faced his thought without metaphors, he would have seen that it was nonsense. So, when he describes his hero, he does not dare to say, the purer man, or the happier man, or the sadder man, for all these are ideas; and ideas are alarming. He says the upper man, or over man, a physical metaphor from acrobats or alpine climbers. Nietzsche is truly a very timid thinker. He does not really know in the least what sort of man he wants evolution to produce. And if he does not know, certainly the ordinary evolutionists, who talk about things being higher, do not know either. From Orthodoxy by Chesterton

'How can a man learn to know himself? By reflection never - only by action. In the measure that thou seekest to do thy duty shalt thou know what is in thee. But what is thy duty? The demand of the hour.' Goethe

living in the green village where Aldous Huxley married his first wife (thus not in the UK)

born in 79

I'm currently drowning the wasps, while enjoying a protective smoke

fifth of ten children (so my name isn't very well chosen ;-)