Hiking with Nietzsche: On Becoming Who You Are
What reached a decision in me at that time was not a break with Wagner … [instead] I was overcome by impatience with myself; I saw that it was high time for me to recall and reflect on myself. All at once it became clear to me in a terrifying way how much time I had already wasted … It was then that my instinct made its inexorable decision against
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What if some day or night a demon were to steal into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: “This life as you now live and have lived it you will have to live once again and innumerable times again; and there will be nothing new in it, but every pain and every joy and every thought and sigh and everything unspeakably small or great in your life
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“All truly great thoughts,” Nietzsche informs his reader in The Twilight of the Idols, “are conceived while walking.”
John Kaag • Hiking with Nietzsche: On Becoming Who You Are
In Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Nietzsche’s most famous character, having spent his life in the mountains, concludes: “Happiness? Why should I strive for happiness? I strive for my work.”