Roger Morris

“TO BE IGNORANT OF WHAT OCCURRED before you were born is to remain always a child.”
― John Kaag, Hiking with Nietzsche: On Becoming Who You Are

“When one’s life is completely controlled by powerful masters, the discipline of self-denial gives a slave something to do on his own terms. Indeed, it becomes the one thing a slave accomplishes on his own behalf. The slave has few options at his disposal: he can will nothing and be wholly controlled by his master, or he can set his will in motion in the ongoing process of self-negation. The slave has a choice between nonaction, which would eventually bring about his demise, and action, willful but self-abnegating, which would hasten this eventuality. Nietzsche thinks the decision is all too obvious: humans would rather destroy themselves than embody the passivity of willing nothing at all.”
― John Kaag, Hiking with Nietzsche: On Becoming Who You Are

“Life's like a penis; When it's soft you can't beat it; When it's hard you get screwed. - The Fat Man, Medical Resident in The House of God”
― Samuel Shem, The House of God

“Terror has its uses. The questions that scare us the most are precisely the ones that deserve our full and immediate attention.”
― John Kaag, Hiking with Nietzsche: On Becoming Who You Are