/the-myth-of-sisyphus.pdf One always finds one’s burden again. But Sisyphus teaches the higher fidelity that negates the gods and raises rocks. He too concludes that all is well. ... The struggle itself toward the heights is enough to fill a man’s heart. ... One must imagine Sisyphus happy. /thus-spoke-zarathustra.epub Even the wisest among you is only a confusion and hybrid of plant and phantom. But do I ask you to become phantoms or plants? ... Man is a rope stretched between the animal and the Superman- a rope over an abyss. ... one must still have chaos in oneself, to give birth to a dancing star. > what do you think is the primary aim of a good human life? to live with intent, fire, and honesty. to try glimpsing what it means to be human > are moral truths constructed, discovered, or illusory? moral truths are illusory - a vague shadow of a shape, formed by someone else, echoed through eternity > do you see the self as stable, fluid, or fictional? the self is a river in motion through time -- fluid > does power corrupt, or reveal? power corrupts. there is no "static character" that power reveals. we change everything we touch, and are changed by everything we touch.