In every form of his being, man is related to something other than himself; as a being to his world, as consciousness to objects, as spirit to the idea of whatever constitutes totality, …. Man always becomes man by devoting him-self to this other.
And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.... Friedrich Nietzsche
In every form of his being, man is related to something other than himself; as a being to his world, as consciousness to objects, as spirit to the idea of whatever constitutes totality, …. Man always becomes man by devoting him-self to this other.
….. We are asked to imagine a group of people chained from birth inside a cave. All they can see is the wall in front of them and the flickering shadows cast upon it. To these people the shadows are reality, even they are merely illusions, or, to be more precise, imperfect copies of the [...]