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Nietzsche on Amor Fati: The Eternal Recurrence
Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science
The Modern Polymath@modern_polymath•3 min read
The Demon's Whisper1 / 3
What if you had to relive every heartbreak, every mistake, and every boring hour for eternity? Would you fall to the floor in despair, or would you smile with supreme affirmation?
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My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be different, not forward, not backward, not in all eternity.
Beyond Good and Evil2 / 3
Suffering is not an error to be erased from life; it is the chisel that sculpts character. Without the deep valleys, the mountains of insight cannot exist.
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What does not kill me makes me stronger. The tree that reaches to heaven must have roots reaching to hell.
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