Monday, March 23, 2009

Thoughts on Freedom

Nietzsche writes in his seventy-five aphorisms:

How much a spirit needs for its nourishment, for this there is no formula; but if its taste is for independence, for quick coming and going, for roaming, perhaps for adventures for which only the swiftest are a match, it is better for such a spirit to live in freedom with little to eat than unfree and stuffed.  It is not fat but the greatest possible suppleness and strength that a good dancer desires from his nourishment - and I would not know what the spirit of a philosopher might wish more to be than a good dancer.  For the dance is his ideal, also his art, and finally also his only piety, his "service of God."

More on this later, I think.

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