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.”

“All truly great thoughts,” Nietzsche informs his reader in The Twilight of the Idols, “are conceived while walking.”

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

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