Swany’s Whey

Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, 7.214: ” Our Virtues? — It is probable that we, too, have still our virtues, although naturally they are not those sincere and massive virtues on account of which we hold our grandfathers in esteem and also at a little distance from us. We Europeans of the day after tomorrow, [...]

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Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, 6.205: “The dangers that beset the evolution of the philosopher are, in fact, so manifold nowadays, that one might doubt whether this fruit could still come to maturity. The extent and towering structure of the sciences have increased enormously, and therewith also the probability that the philosopher will grow tired [...]

Montaigne, Essay 36, Of Cato the Younger.: “Crawling upon the slime of the earth, I do not for all that cease to observe up in the clouds the inimitable height of some heroic souls. ‘Tis a great deal for me to have my judgment regular and just, if the effects cannot be so, and to [...]

Nietzche, Beyond Good and Evil, 6.204, We Scholars: The declaration of independence of the scientific man, his emancipation from philosophy, is one of the subtler after-effects of democratic organization and disorganization: the self- glorification and self-conceitedness of the learned man is now everywhere in full bloom, and in its best springtime — which does not [...]

Montaigne, Essay 35, Of the custom of wearing clothes: “I was disputing with myself in this shivering season, whether the fashion of going naked in those nations lately discovered is imposed upon them by the hot temperature of the air, as we say of the Indians and Moors, or whether it be the original fashion [...]

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Montaigne, Essay 33.: “Did she [Fortune] not also excel the painter Protogenes in his art? who having finished the picture of a dog quite tired and out of breath, in all the other parts excellently well to his own liking, but not being able to express, as he would, the slaver and foam that should [...]

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Montaigne, Essay 31, That a Man Is Soberly to Judge of the Divine Ordinances: “And who would take upon him to give a reason that Arius and his Pope Leo, the principal heads of the Arian heresy, should die, at several times, of so like and strange deaths (for being withdrawn from the disputation by [...]

Montaigne, Essay 30 (Of Cannibals).: “Three of these people [from the New World], not foreseeing how dear their knowledge of the corruptions of this part of the world will one day cost their happiness and repose, and that the effect of this commerce will be their ruin, as I presuppose it is in a very [...]

Wikipedia Oh, beat the drum slowly and play the fife lowly, And play the dead march as you carry me along; Take me to the valley, and lay the sod o’er me, For I’m a young cowboy and I know I’ve done wrong.

Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, 4.146 : “146. He who fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby become a monster. And if thou gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will also gaze into thee.”