Wednesday, November 16, 2022

For those whom Nietzsche shocks

Nietzsche just want you to think. He says, do what you do, but do it with your participation in it. This is none other than what Aurelius says, about being serious about what we do, about every minute of our life. We must be conscious, we must be in it, in life. Not only because, I think, that we don't know when the death comes, but because, we are dead already, if we don't act according our true nature and our mind.


It goes without saying that I do not deny - unless I am a fool - that many actions called immoral ought to be avoided and resisted, or that many called moral ought to be done and encouraged - but I think the one should be encouraged and the other avoided for other reasons than hitherto. We have to learn to think differently - in order at last, perhaps very late on, to attain even more: to feel differently. (Daybreak, 103)

Ich leugne nicht — wie sich von selber versteht, vorausge- setzt dass ich kein Narr bin — , dass viele Handlungen, welche unsittlich heissen, zu vermeiden und zu bekämpfen sind; ebenfalls, dass viele, die sittlich heissen, zu thun und zu fördern sind, — aber ich meine: das Eine wie das Andere aus anderen Gründen als bisher. Wir haben umzulernen, — um endlich, vielleicht sehr spät, noch mehr zu erreichen: umzufühlen.

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