Amor Fati

“Philosophy (…) is a voluntary quest for even the most detested and notorious sides of existence. (…) From (…) wandering through ice and wilderness, I learned to view differently all that had (…) philosophized: the hidden history of philosophy, the psychology of its great names, came to light (…). "How much tr...uth can a spirit endure, how much truth does a spirit dare?"—this became for me the real standard of value. Error is cowardice - every achievement of knowledge is a consequence of courage, of severity (…), of cleanliness toward oneself— Such an experimental philosophy (…) anticipates (…) even the possibilities (…) of nihilism; but this does not (…) halt at a negation (…),(but) cross(es) over to the opposite (…)— to a Dionysian affirmation of the world it is, without subtraction, exception, or selection—it wants the eternal calculation:—the same things, the same logic and illogic of entanglements. The highest state a philosopher can attain (…) a Dionysian relationship to existence (…) the amor fati.”

"I want to learn more and more to see as beautiful what is necessary in things; then I shall be one of those who make things beautiful. Amor fati: let that be my love henceforth! I do not want to wage war against what is ugly. I do not want to accuse; I do not even want to accuse those who accuse. Looking away shall be my only negation. And all in all and on the whole: some day I wish to be only a Yes-sayer."