“For believe me! - the secret for harvesting from existence the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment is: to live dangerously! Build your cities on the slopes of Vesuvius! Send your ships into uncharted seas! Live at war with your peers and yourselves! Be robbers and conquerors as long as you cannot be rulers and possessors, you seekers of knowledge! Soon the age will be past when you could be content to live hidden in forests like shy deer! At long last the search for knowledge will reach out for its due: - it will want to rule and possess, and you with it!”
- The Gay Science
“When one has much to put in them, a day has a thousand pockets.”
- Thus Spoke Zarathustra
“And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.”
- (He may not have said this, but I'm sure he would have agreed)
No man can rely on the words of another as truthful as every man's thoughts, yours and mine, without exception, are imprecise - they have been constructed by a flawed mind, that of which only sentient beings possess. Why then, more importantly, how then may we rely on the words of our fellow man? I proclaim we cannot, lest we be fooled, by no fault of our fellow thinkers, by their inherent foolishness. We must then become the ultimate adjudicator of truth in our world, the world being constructed before our eyes and between our ears, for no man has the authority to reduce our inalienable convictions of thoughts constructed from our own learned brain.
Negative thoughts flourish in an environment where we have the option to choose the wrong thing. We will always be in this environment and thus a battle ensues. The battle is life and as human beings our hedonic longings are our ever present burden - pulling us away from self fulfillment. We must remember that forgoing our temporally insignificant desires are the prepayments we must bear before we are granted something pursuant of a much loftier agenda.