Nietzsche on what it really means to be a free spirit https://t.co/fqGWVItqJc— Maria Popova (@brainpicker) September 29, 2019
“Let us face ourselves. We are Hyperboreans; we know very well how far off we live. 'Neither by land nor by sea will you find the way to the Hyperboreans'—Pindar already knew this about us. Beyond the north, ice, and death—our life, our happiness. We have discovered happiness, we know the way, we have found the exit out of the labyrinth of thousands of years. Who else has found it? Modern man perhaps? 'I have got lost; I am everything that has got lost,' sighs modern man. This modernity was our sickness: lazy peace, cowardly compromise, the whole virtuous uncleanliness of the modern Yes and No. … Rather live in the ice than among modern virtues and other south winds! We were intrepid enough, we spared neither ourselves nor others; but for a long time we did not know where to turn with our intrepidity. We became gloomy, we were called fatalists. Our fatum—abundance, tension, the damming of strength. We thirsted for lightning and deeds and were most remote from the happiness of the weakling, 'resignation.' In our atmosphere was a thunderstorm; the nature we are became dark—for we saw no way. Formula for our happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal.” ― The Anti-Christ
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What little I've learned about Nietzsche researching my report topic suggests to me that he was not "happy" in the sense of tranquility or even life satisfaction. He seemed to have been tormented by demons as he struggled to find and explain the meaning of life. He certainly rejected the notion of happiness as maximization of pleasure. But if happiness meant to him working toward the goal of overcoming life's restrictions on becoming who we are, then he must have been happy, no matter how painful his experience.
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