Fragment 1111

Like the Dao De Jing, Rene Leys opens with a wonderful gesture of abandonment in which, even before the text begins, it is disowned, negated, made absent rather than present.

I shall know no more then. Well, I shall not insist.


Rene Leys


The way that can be spoken of 
Is not the constant way;
The name that can be named 
Is not the constant name...


Dao De Jing

Nietzsche on moral condemnation

Moral judgement and condemnation is the favourite form of revenge of the spiritually limited on those who are less so, likewise a form of compensation for their having been neglected by nature, finally an occasion for acquiring spirit and becoming refined - malice spiritualises.