Over the weekend I went into a book store. While there I found a dog eared copy of The Portable Nietzsche. It only took about half a page of reading and I had to buy it. In a letter to his sister he started talking about his search for truth. In essence the thing that caught me and sold me on the book was this quote. "Do we after all seek rest, peace and pleasure in our inquiries? No only truth, even if it be the most abhorrent and ugly."
My hope is that there is beauty and peace at the end of the search. But we must not be deterred if the answers point elsewhere. If we do not search ferociously and critically for truth we might as well take up the opium pipe.
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