…very often are attached. A superb painter like Van Gogh was a man so psychotic he eventually committed suicide. What about Nietzsche as a philosopher? One can think of an endless list of people whose characters were very stormy, disturbed and rough, who…

…about evolution and how the human race was going on to ever greater heights and we would eventually develop superman according to Nietzsche or g b shaw and h g wells remember all that early fantasy of where evolution would lead through the development of…

…then only is the lover free when he is free from willing. He who is free is free to do what he will but first, as Nietzsche says, he must be such as can will, or as Rumi expresses it must have surrendered will. This is by no means the same as to…

…we've been brought up so as not to have the courage of our convictions about it, to be a consistent egotist. Perhaps Nietzsche was a great exemplar of this philosophy. To be a consistent egotist requires tremendous nerve because everybody is trying to put…