"You desire to live “according to Nature”? Oh, you noble Stoics,what fraud of words! Imagine yourselves a being like Nature, boundlessly extravagant, without purpose or consideration, without pity or justice, at once fruitful and barren and uncertain: imagine to yourselves indifference as a power- how could you live in accordance with such indifference? To live- is not that just endeavouring to be otherwise than this Nature? Is not living valuing, preferring, being unjust, being limited, endeavouring to be different? And granted that your imperative, “living according to Nature” means actually the same as “living according to life”- how could you do differently? Why should you make a principle out of what you yourselves are, and must be? In reality, however, it is quite otherwise with you: while you pretend to read with rapture the canon of your law in Nature, you want something quite the contrary, you extraordinary stage-players and self-deluders! In your pride you wish to dictate your morals and ideals to Nature, to Nature herself, and to incorporate them therein; you insist that it shall be Nature." -Friedrich Nietzsche
Posted on: Wed, 18 Sep 2013 01:50:51 +0000
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