Friedrich Nietzsche: The Gay Science

Describes three short aphorisms from Nietzsche's The Gay Science: #276 (amor fati), #285, and #341 (the eternal return). Compares Nietzsche's atheism to Sartre's atheistic idea that we are forlorn because we have to create ourselves rather than rely on God. Compares the idea of eternal return to Einstein's special theory of relativity.

[yanxcaptain]

"How fond he is of wearing masks" - has a drastically different connotation in 2020 lol

[longcastle]

Saying things are eternally fixed to the point that exact moments repeat is so anti Heraclitus. I think Nietzsche would have eventually dropped it in favor of a more realistic picture of what faces us.

[shaygahweh]

Nietzsche posits that strength of will (spiritual vitality) and belief in transcendental absolutes are in direct competition. He goes as far as describing the belief in absolute truth as a "malady of the will." Truly devastating -- and great lazy Sunday hermit material ;)

[ttiLee]

He has scaled Olympus, found an unoccupied summit and reveled in the vistas

[joesorel]

4:57 N rarely gives "advice" and is not giving "this advice" to us.


He is simply wishing what he wants for himself.

N writes in perspectives. One wrong angle, as in art, and his meaning is lost.

[irreadings]

I was trying to remember where I knew you from, because you seemed so familiar...

Then I noticed that, at least to me, you look a lot like Wittgenstein.

[bryanutility]

I find Nietzsche to be unreadable. I’m not that fancy. I just want things distilled into as few words as possible. I don’t have time for “artistic” farts.