Nietzsche

For the New Year. I still live, I still think: I still have to live, for I still have to think. Sum, ergo, cogito: cogito, ergo, sum. Today everybody permits himself the expression of his wish and his dearest thought; hence I, too, shall say what it is that I wish from myself today, and what was the first thought to run across my heart this year--what thought shall be for me the reason, warranty, and sweetness of my life henceforth. I want to learn more and more to see as beautiful what is necessary in things; then I shall be one of those who make things beautiful. Amor fati: let that be my love henceforth! I do not want to wage war against what is ugly. I do not want to accuse; I do not even want to accuse those who accuse. Looking away will be my only negation. And all in all and on the whole: some day I wish to be only a Yes-sayer.

Quotation courtesy of Rei Terada (and yes, Nietzsche). Find the book here: Looking Away: Phenomenality and Dissatisfaction, Kant to Adorno.