For the new year -- I still live, I still think. I still have to live,
for I still have to think. Sum, ergo cogito: cogito, ergo sum.
Today everyobody permits himself the expression of his dearest thought;
hence I, too, shall say what it is that I wish from myself today, and
what was the first thought to run across my heart this year -- what
thought shall be for me the reason, warranty, and sweetness of my life
henceforth. I want to learn more and more to see as beautiful what is
necessary in things; then I shall be one of those who make things
beautiful. Amor fati: let that be my love henceforth! I do not want to
wage war against what is ugly. I do not want to accuse; I do not even
want to accuse those who accuse. Looking away shall be my only
negation. And all in all and on the whole: some day I wish to be only a
Yes-sayer.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche
__The Gay Science__ Sec. 276
*sum= I am
*ergo= therefore
*Cogito = I think
*amor fati = love of fate
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"This law is a rag worthy of the dust
off the rebels' feet" -- Fahmida Riaz, "The Interrogator"
http://www.columbia.edu/~ap191
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