Does not everything depend upon our interpretation of the silence around us?

Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet.

“To live alone one must be a beast or a god, says Aristotle. Leaving out the third case: one must be both—a philosopher.”

“Man must be capable of doing evil so that he may respect himself.”

“The highest state a philosopher can attain is to stand in a Dionysian relationship with existence. My formula for tihs is amor fati.”

“To suffer from one’s environment, to defend oneself with involuntary mistrust against its love, to learn silence, and to create for oneself nooks and undiscoverable solitudes for moments of relief, until one is finally strong enough to say, ‘what do I have to do with you?’ and to go one’s own way.”