Nietszche had his moments, but mainly unhappy ones.
Posted: 19 Oct 2007 12:28 pm
I was just reminded of this comment of Nietszche's. The person who reminded me of it also mentioned that his answer was no, he would not gnash his teeth and curse the speaker, which is my instinctive reaction as well. Hmm, I wonder if that means I am happy?
What, if some day or night a demon were to steal after you in your loneliest loneliness and say to you: “This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more; and there will be nothing new in it, but every pain and every joy and every thought and sigh and everything unutterably small or great in your life will have to return to you, all in the same succession and sequence — even this spider and this moonlight between the trees, and even this moment and I myself. The eternal hourglass of existence is turned upside down again and again — and you with it, speck of dust!” — Would you not throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse the demon who spoke thus?
