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What will the creature made all of seadrift do on the dry sand of daylight; what will the mind do, each morning, waking?
The end justifies the means. But what if there never is an end? All we have is means.
The infinite possibility, the unlimited and unqualified wholeness of being of the uncommitted, the nonacting, the uncarved: the being who, being nothing but himself, is everything.
He was living almost like a young child, among actualities only. He was surprised by nothing, and by everything.
The quality of the will to power is, precisely, growth. Achievement is its cancellation. To be, the will to power must increase with each fulfillment, making the fulfillment only a step to a further one. The vaster the power gained, the vaster the appetite for more. As there was no visible limit to the power Haber wielded through Orr’s dreams, so there was no end to his determination to improve the world.
“We’re in the world, not against it. It doesn’t work to try to stand outside things and run them that way. It just doesn’t work, it goes against life. There is a way but you have to follow it. The world is, no matter how we think it ought to be. You have to be with it. You have to let it be.”
Love doesn’t just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.
the skin of a living animal, the intermediate surface between a cow and the universe.
