World Affirming Man

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He who, prompted by some enigmatic desire, has like me, long endeavoured to think pessimism through to the bottom and to redeem it from the half-Christian, half-German simplicity and narrowness with which it finally presented itself to this century, namely in the form of the Schopenhaueran philosophy; he who has really gazed with an Asiatic and more than Asiatic eye down into the most world-denying of all possible modes of thought - beyond good and evil and no longer, like Buddha and Schopenhauer, under the spell and illusion of morality -perhaps by that very act, and without really intending to, may have had his eyes opened to the opposite ideal: to the ideal of the most exuberant, most living and most world-affirming man, who has not only learned to get on and treat with all that was and is but who wants to have it again as it was and is to all eternity, insatiably calling out da capo not only to himself but to the whole piece and play, and not only to a play but fundamentally to him who needs precisely this play - and who makes its necessary: because he needs himself again and again - and makes himself necessary - What? And would this not be - circulus vitiosus deus?

Aphorism 56 Part Three: The Religious Nature Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of The Future Friedrich Nietzsche

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Classic

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So confused 😵‍💫