The art of swimming -she supposed like any art- was about purity. The more focused you were on the activity, the less focused you were on everything else and became the thing you were doing.
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Analytic Philosophy and Ahistoricism
What is called the history of concepts is really either a history of our knowledge of concepts or of the meanings of words. Often it is only through enormous intellectual work, which can last for hundreds of years, that knowledge of a concept in its purity is achieved, by peeling off the alien clothing that conceals it from the mind’s eye.
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All of man’s higher spiritual ideals were a continuation of the original quest for energy-power. Nietzsche was one of the first to state this blatantly, and he shocked the world with it: that all morality is fundamentally a matter of power, of the power of organisms to continue existing by reaching for a superhuman purity.
"the purity of intention when you make work for yourself"
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Ich begann damit, daß ich mir gründlich und grundsätzlich alle romantische Musik verbot, diese zweideutige, großthuerische, schwüle Kunst, welche den Geist um seine Strenge und Lustigkeit bringt und jede Art unklarer Sehnsucht, schwammichter Begehrlichkeit wuchern macht. » Cave musicam« ist auch heute noch mein Rath an Alle, die Manns genug sind, um in Dingen des Geistes auf Reinlichkeit zu halten; solche Musik entnervt, erweicht, verweiblicht, ihr »Ewig-Weibliches« zieht uns – hinab! ...
I began by entirely forbidding myself all romantic music, that ambiguous, pompous, stifling art, which robs the mind of its sternness and its joyousness and provides a fertile soil for every kind of vague yearning and spongy sensuality. “Cave musicam” is even to-day my advice to all who are enough of men to cling to purity in matters of the intellect. Such music enervates, softens, feminises, its “eternal feminine” draws us—down.*
*The allusion is to the ending of the Second Part of Goethe's Faust—“das Ewig Weibliche Zieht uns hinan!”—“The Eternal Feminine Draweth us on!!"
Paul V. Cohn, B.A, Human All Too Human II, p. 8
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche: Menschliches, Allzumenschliches II - Kapitel 3, Vorrede 3