"The mother of excess is not joy but joylessness."
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Once upon a time, in some out of the way corner of that universe which is dispersed into numberless twinkling solar systems, there was a star upon which clever beasts invented knowing. That was the most arrogant and mendacious minute of "world history", but nevertheless, it was only a minute. After nature had drawn a few breathes, the star cooled and congealed, and the clever beasts had to die...
...One might invent such a fable, and yet he still would not have adequately illustrated how miserable, how shadowy and transient, how aimless and arbitrary the human intellect looks within nature.
Done and done.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Once upon a time, in some out of the way corner of that universe which is dispersed into numberless twinkling solar systems, there was a star upon which clever beasts invented knowing. That was the most arrogant and mendacious minute of "world history", but nevertheless, it was only a minute. After nature had drawn a few breathes, the star cooled and congealed, and the clever beasts had to die...
...One might invent such a fable, and yet he still would not have adequately illustrated how miserable, how shadowy and transient, how aimless and arbitrary the human intellect looks within nature.
Done and done.
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Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science, section 108
By far one of my favorite philosophers of all time. I've read all of his works...