On this stroll through baroque gardens, we want to stop twelve times to take a moment for twelve philosophical meditations: 

Stop 1 Oh mankind, pray!
Stop 2 What does deep midnight have to say?
Stop 3 »From sleep, from sleep –
Stop 4 From deepest dream I made my way: –
Stop 5 The world is deep,
Stop 6 And deeper than the grasp of day.
Stop 7 Deep is its pain –,
Stop 8 Joy – deeper still than misery:
Stop 9 Pain says: Refrain!
Stop 10 Yet all joy wants eternity –
Stop 11 – Wants deep, wants deep eternity.«

Stop 12 Silence.

From: Friedrich Nietzsche. THUS SPOKE ZARATHUSTRA, Fourth and Final Part, The Sleepwalker Song.

Arno Böhler is a lecturer at the institute for philosophy at the University of Vienna and founder of the philosophy-performance-festival “Philosophy On Stage”.