Quotes from the World for Tuesday 10/18/MMXI

What do you believe in?—In this, that the weights of all things must be determined anew.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900), German philosopher, classical scholar, critic of culture. Friedrich Nietzsche, Sämtliche Werke: Kritische Studienausgabe, vol. 3, p. 519, eds. Giorgio Colli and Mazzino Montinari, Berlin, de Gruyter (1980). The Gay Science, first edition, “Third Book,” aphorism 269 (1882).