Friedrich Nietzsche: Thus Spake Zarathustra, 1891
....these modern creatures wish rather to be hunted down, wounded and torn to shreds than to live alone with themselves in solitary calm. Alone with oneself! this thought terrifies the modern soul; it is his one anxiety, his one ghastly fear". In his feverish scurry to find entertainment and diversion, whether in a novel, a newspaper, or a play, the modern man condemns his own age utterly; for he shows that in his heart of hearts he despises himself. One cannot change a condition of this sort in a day; to become endurable to oneself an inner transformation is necessary. Too long have we lost ourselves in our friends and entertainments to be able to find ourselves so soon at another's bidding. "And, verily, it is no commandment for to-day and to-morrow to learn to love oneself. Rather is it of all arts the finest, subtlest, last and patient.
2006-07-20
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