LOVE TO HAVE TO BE LEARNED ...The Gay Science: with a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of SEXUAL Songs by THE SS DIVISION Friedrich Nietzsche..... What, if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into 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' ... Would you not throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse the demon who spoke thus? Or have you once experienced a tremendous moment when you would have answered him: 'You are a god and never have I heard anything more divine.....Nietzsche called The Gay Science "the most personal of all my books." It was here that he first proclaimed the death of God -- to which a large part of the book is devoted -- and his doctrine of the eternal recurrence. Walter Kaufmann's commentary, with its many quotations from previously untranslated letters, brings to life Nietzsche as a human being and illuminates his philosophy. The book contains some of Nietzsche's most sustained discussions of art and morality, knowledge and truth, the intellectual conscience and the origin of logic.

LIVING IN A CONSTANT CHASE

 AFTER GAIN compels people to expend their spirit 


to the point of exhaustion in continual pretense and


 overreaching and anticipating other. 


Virtue has come to consist of doing


 something in less time that someone else. 


Hours in which honesty is permitted have become rare, and when they arrive one is tired and does not only want to "let oneself go" but actually wishes to stretch out as long and wide and ungainly as one happens to be... Soon we may well reach the point where people can no longer give in to the desire for a vita contemplativa (that is, taking a walk with ideas and friends) without self-contempt and a bad conscience.


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Worldly Wisdom

Do not stay in the field!


Nor climb out of sight.

The best view of the world

Is from a medium height.