The reason why is because people essentially are only good at answering two basic types of questions when they don’t know what they want: What it is they don’t want and what they’ve done in the past.
“What, if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: 'This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more' ... Would you not throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse the demon who spoke thus? Or have you once experienced a tremendous moment when you would have answered him: 'You are a god and never have I heard anything more divine.”
― The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs
― The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs
“If you run into an asshole in the morning, you ran into an asshole. If you run into assholes all day, you're the asshole.”
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“Rather than love, than monney, than faith, than fame, than fairness, give me truth.”
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“NEVER MIND THE CHEESE —who moved my weekend?”
― The Seven-Day Weekend: Changing the Way Work Works
― The Seven-Day Weekend: Changing the Way Work Works
“I'm not sure where I'm going. I'll lead!”
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