Friday, February 02, 2007

I'm a god. I'm not the God. I don't think...

We are, all of us, growing volcanoes that approach the hour of their eruption; but how near or distant that is, nobody knows -- not even God. Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science (1882)

2 comments:

  1. Can you explain the connection between the movie, and the quote?

    "Nietzsche. You're not speaking because of Friedrich Nietzsche?"

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  2. there's a lot of gay science in groundhog day. philosophy-wise. and you could treat phil connors' episode as his big eruption (i.e. revelation) that he needs to be available to love.

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