Nietzsche-"We have discovered happiness"
Speaking for "free spirits" and "philosophers of the future," he pronounced "the formula for our happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal.” But was he really happy? Did he try to be? Or want to?
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“Let us face ourselves. We are Hyperboreans; we know very well how far off we live. 'Neither by land nor by sea will you find the way to the Hyperboreans'—Pindar already knew this about us. Beyond the north, ice, and death—our life, our happiness. We have discovered happiness, we know the way, we have found the exit out of the labyrinth of thousands of years. Who else has found it? Modern man perhaps? 'I have got lost; I am everything that has got lost,' sighs modern man. This modernity was our sickness: lazy peace, cowardly compromise, the whole virtuous uncleanliness of the modern Yes and No. … Rather live in the ice than among modern virtues and other south winds! We were intrepid enough, we spared neither ourselves nor others; but for a long time we did not know where to turn with our intrepidity. We became gloomy, we were called fatalists. Our fatum—abundance, tension, the damming of strength. We thirsted for lightning and deeds and were most remote from the happiness of the weakling, 'resignation.' In our atmosphere was a thunderstorm; the nature we are became dark—for we saw no way. Formula for our happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal.” ― The Anti-Christ
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"Nobody exists on purpose. Nobody belongs anywhere. Everybody's gonna die. Come watch TV" - Great line from the Rick and Morty clip.
ReplyDeleteAlso, this clip from the associated article really resonated and I feel like it really hits the nail on the head:
"We are caught between our strong human need to search for truth and our equally strong need to have meaning. But scientific discoveries have forced us into a deeply uncomfortable contradiction. On the one hand our pursuit of scientific truth suggests our significance in the cosmos is either minuscule or completely nonexistent; on the other hand, this realization feels like a deep violation of our need for meaning."
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ReplyDeleteI like how you pulled out the Rick and Morty clip, says some of the best stuff.