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Nietzsche is famous for this one phrase:"God is dead, and we have killed him."
But the phrase is not finished. It's taken out of context.
If it were complete, it would read:
"God is dead, and we have killed him. Why? Because now we have become him."
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“If we train our conscience, it kisses us while it hurts”
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“To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.”
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“. . . None of us are born as passive generic blobs waiting for the world to stamp its imprint on us. Instead we show up possessing already a highly refined and individuated soul.
Another way of thinking of it is: We're not born with unlimited choices.
We can't be anything we want to be.
We come into this world with a specific, personal destiny. We have a job to do, a calling to enact, a self to become. We are who we are from the cradle, and we're stuck with it.
Our job in this lifetime is not to shape ourselves into some ideal we imagine we ought to be, but to find out who we already are and become it.”
― The War of Art
Another way of thinking of it is: We're not born with unlimited choices.
We can't be anything we want to be.
We come into this world with a specific, personal destiny. We have a job to do, a calling to enact, a self to become. We are who we are from the cradle, and we're stuck with it.
Our job in this lifetime is not to shape ourselves into some ideal we imagine we ought to be, but to find out who we already are and become it.”
― The War of Art
“The opposite of love is not hate. It is indifference.”
― The Beloved Ego: Foundations of the New Study of the Psyche
― The Beloved Ego: Foundations of the New Study of the Psyche
“Tereza knew what happens during the moment love is born: the woman cannot resist the voice calling forth her terrified soul; the man cannot resist the woman whose soul thus responds to his voice.”
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
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