The Nietzschean Dawn

"The entire evolution of the spirit is a question of the body... In the long run, it is not a question of man at all: he is to be overcome."

The Will to Power

"The enlightened mind walks amongst humans as among animals."

"The desire for human interactions that are perfectly clean and that escape general conventions becomes a desire for annihilation."

Bataille

"We are a knightly order from which one cannot withdraw, to which one is recruited by blood."

Himmler

To die like a hero is to perish through desire.

"Why you are here, that you should ask yourself: and if you have no ready answer, then set for yourself goals, high and noble goals, and perish in pursuit of them!

I know of no better life purpose than to perish in attempting the great and the impossible."

Nietzsche

All less extreme forms are a result of this, naturally.

Absolute fear - free from desire presupposes death; and absolute desire - free from fear also presupposes death.

When one fears, it means that one desires to live - one still prefers life over death.

When one desires, it means that one fears that which would have already killed him - had the fear been overcome through desire, one would perish through desire.

But the enlightened mind knows that necessities belong to fantasy.

That which is called a necessity is a product of fear and of desire.

When a man fears, he ultimately fears death.

When a man desires, he ultimately desires to die.