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Denny ([personal profile] denny) wrote2007-06-11 10:41 pm
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Thought for the day

"You know what everyone's greatest fear is? It is that all the dreams we have, all the crazy ideas and aspirations, all the impossible romantic longings and utopian visions can come true, that the world can grant us our wishes... No weight could be harder to bear than the possibility that everything we want is possible. If that is true, then there really are things at stake in this life, things to be truly won or lost." -- Nietzsche

[identity profile] ninneviane.livejournal.com 2007-06-12 11:25 am (UTC)(link)
Either or - if I read this on a 'the cup is half full' day, I draw the conclusion you did. If I read it on a 'the cup is half empty' day I take something different from it.

One of my favourite Nietzsche quotes is "The consequences of our actions grab us by the scruff of our necks, quite indifferent to our claim that we have "gotten better" in the meantime."
That's always struck a chord for me :)