Christianity remains to this day the greatest misfortune of humanity.
Friedrich NietzscheRead
In pain there is as much wisdom as in pleasure: like the latter it is one of the best self preservatives of a species.
Interpretation
Pain and pleasure both contribute to our understanding and survival.
This quote by Friedrich Nietzsche suggests that both pain and pleasure hold valuable lessons and insights. It emphasizes that experiences of suffering can be just as enlightening as those of joy, both playing crucial roles in the survival and development of a species. Essentially, the wisdom gained from pain is as significant as that derived from pleasure, underscoring the duality of human experience.
In practice
In a motivational speech about resilience, one might say, 'Remember that in pain there is wisdom that can guide your path forward.'
Christianity remains to this day the greatest misfortune of humanity.
That which does not kill us makes us stronger.
Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.
Watch them clamber, these swift monkeys! They clamber over one another and thus drag one another into the mud and the depth. They all want to get to the throne: that is their madness β as if happiness sat on the throne. Often, mud sits on the throne β and often the throne also on mud. Mad they all appear to me, clambering monkeys and overardent. Foul smells their idol, the cold monster: foul, they smell to me altogether, these idolators.
Reason is the cause of our falsification of the evidence of the senses. In so far as the senses show becoming, passing away, change, they do not lie.
The anarchist and the Christian have a common origin.
Common sense is as rare as genius.
Stupidity, outrage, vanity, cruelty, iniquity, bad faith, falsehood - we fail to see the whole array when it is facing in the same direction as we.
I wanted to lie hour after hour on a couch, pouring out the dark, secret places of my heart--do this feeling that over my shoulder sat humanity and wisdom and generosity, a munificent heart--do this until that incredibly lovely day when the great man would say to me, his voice grave and dramatic with discovery: "This is you, Exley. Rise and go back into the world a whole man.
You have to give to the world the thing that you want the most, in order to fix the broken parts inside you.
Indeed, I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.
I am, as I've said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary.
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