One should not think slightingly of the paradoxical; for the paradox is the source of the thinker’s passion, and the thinker without the paradox is like a lover without a feeling. Kierkegaard, Philosophical Fragments, p 46
Everything we call base is a phenomenon due to gravity. Moreover the word baseness is an indication of this fact. . . . Queueing for food. The same action is easier if the motive is base than if it is noble. Base motives have in them more energy than noble ones. Problem: in what way …
Against the great error of thinking that our era (Europe) represents the highest human type. Instead: the men of the Renaissance were higher, as were the Greeks; in fact, perhaps we are at a rather low level: ‘understanding’ is not a sign of highest force but of thorough fatigue; moralisation itself is a ‘décadence’. Nietzsche, …