Hate on Nietzche. He was an asshole. Not so facebooky, is it? That's also Nietzsche, also from The Will to Power, the book of notes that Nietzsche wanted to call The Antichrist: The Revaluation of All Values but he'd long since died of brain cancer/syphilis (jury's out) and his Nazi brother-in-law was busy carving up his works to enrage Der Vaterland into beating the shit out of Russia. Nietzsche was a big fan of Der Vaterland, by the way: Whenever you see a Nietzsche quote, hear it in the voice of Stewie Griffin, or if you prefer, Ren from Ren & Stimpy. He never married, relied on his sister for money and spent his life hating on everyone around him. He was an ass. If he hadn't written so copiously about the Ubermensch he would be long forgotten by now. As far as the payload of the quote, it's this: - Sophocles Or if you prefer - Longfellow Or - Anais Nin All of which say about the same thing: an easy life is a boring life. Nietzsche didn't come up with that, he just made it vile and verbose. And now maybe I won't have to spell "Nietzsche" again for another several months. Buy a vowel, fucker.To those human beings who are of any concern to me I wish suffering, desolation, sickness, ill-treatment, indignities β I wish that they should not remain unfamiliar with profound self-contempt, the torture of self-mistrust, the wretchedness of the vanquished: I have no pity for them, because I wish them the only thing that can prove today whether one is worth anything or not β that one endures.
βIt is my fate to have to be the first decent human being. I have a terrible fear that I shall one day be pronounced holy.β
There is no success without hardship.
Thy fate is the common fate of all,
Into each life some rain must fall,
Great art was born of great terrors, great loneliness, great inhibitions, instabilities, and it always balances them.
Nah, we call people like her the Daily Grace because she always feels the need to grace us with whatever wisdom she seems to have on that particular evening through quotes or preachy BS. This is an outlier because it actually caused me to think a little more and doubt myself. If I used all of her content, I'd have askhubski prompts for months. That being said, thanks for the response, to you and Klein. "Buy a vowel, fucker" had me cracking up in the hallway I was sitting in.