rewrite AS HUMAN REDACTION life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards people demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use anxiety is the dizziness of freedom people understand me so poorly that they don’t even understand my complaint about them not understanding me life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced the most common form of despair is not being who you are the most painful state of being is remembering the future particularly the one you’ll never have what if everything in the world were a misunderstanding what if laughter were really tears knowledge is a wealth that cannot be stolen once you label me you negate me to dare to lose one’s footing momentarily not to dare is to lose oneself the tyrant dies and his rule is over the martyr dies and his rule begins face the facts of being what you are for that is what changes what you are many of us pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that we hurry past it it is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey boredom is the root of all evil the despairing refusal to be oneself it is impossible to exist without passion the self-assured believer is a greater sinner in the eyes of god than the troubled disbeliever leap of faith yes but only after reflection why bother remembering a past that cannot be made into a present on the secretly blushing cheek it’s reflected the glow of the heart happiness is the greatest hiding place for despair it is very important in life to know when your cue comes my sorrow is my castle take away the paradox from the thinker and you have a professor a no does not hide anything but a yes very easily becomes a deception once you are born in this world you’re old enough to die hope is a passion for the possible [Music] cultivate the will this is the armor that preserves the mind therefore do not deceive yourself of all deceivers fear most yourself if you want to be loathsome to god just run with the herd my standpoint is armed neutrality the only intelligent tactical response to life’s horror is to laugh defiantly at it to be lost in spiritlessness is the most terrible thing of all what is youth a dream what is love the dream’s content don’t forget to love yourself whoever has learned to be anxious in the right way has learned the ultimate it is better to get lost in the passion than to lose the passion i would rather be a swineherd understood by the swine than a poet misunderstood by men life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living far from idleness being the root of all evil it is rather the only true good people settle for a level of despair they can tolerate and call it happiness sleeping is the height of genius for it is not what happens to me that makes me great but it is what i do faith is the highest passion in a man you become what you understand life has become a bitter drink to me and yet it must be taken in drops counted one by one be that self that one is faith begins precisely where thinking leaves off i opened my eyes and saw the real world and i began to laugh and i haven’t stopped since what distinguishes all love from lust is the fact that it bears an impression of eternity the best response to criticism is to smile and forget the highest after all is not to comprehend the highest but to do it if you don’t have many friends that means you have a lot of life experience nothing ventured nothing gained to be human is not a fact but a task