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EVERY ANGEL IS TERRIFYING

EVERY ANGEL IS TERRIFYING

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Come Out !

Come Out !

July 28, 2023 Jerry King Comments 0 Comment

In a nutshell!  Nietzsche’s POV of life.  Come out, come out of your nook he urges the reader!  Live your life, expansively, assertively…  Thinking/living to defend is a minor note to the torrent of life…  Come out of your human nook, be the lion!

But…
a scientist
should come out of his human nook;
and in nature it is not conditions of distress
that are dominant but overflow and squandering,
even to the point of absurdity.

The struggle for existence
is only an exception,
a temporary restriction of the will to life.

The great and small struggle
always revolves around superiority, around growth and expansion,
around power
— in accordance with the will to power
which is the will of life.

–excerpt The Gay Science, Book 5, Section 349 by Friedrich Nietzsche

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