[MD] Food for Thought

[MarshaV]

At 05:33 PM 12/30/2006, Ham quoted:

>"'Greek philosophy seems to begin with a preposterous fancy, with the
>proposition that water is the origin and mother-womb of all things.  Is it
>really necessary to stop there and become serious?  Yes, and for three
>reasons: firstly, because the preposition does enunciate something about the
>origin of things; secondly, because it does so without figure and fable;
>thirdly and lastly, because it contained, although only in the chrysalis
>state, the idea: everything is one. ... That which drove him (Thales) to
>this generalization was a metaphysical dogma, which had its origin in a
>mystic intuition and which together with the ever renewed endeavors to
>express it better, we find in all philosophies- the proposition: everything
>is one!' (Friedrich Nietzsche, The Greeks)


Ham,

I love many men.  Certainly Nietzsche is a favorite.  Thanks for the 
remembrance.

Marsha