Facta Ficta

vitam impendere vero

Nietzsche thinking

[MA-WS-317]

OPINIONS AND FISH

We are possessors of our opinions as of fish—that is, in so far as we are possessors of a fish pond. We must go fishing and have luck—then we have our fish, our opinions. I speak here of live opinions, of live fish. Others are content to possess a cabinet of fossils—and, in their head, “convictions.”