What, if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you:'This Life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable time more; and there will be nothing new in it, but every pain and every joy and every thought and sigh and everything unutterable small or great in your life will have to return to you, all in the same succession and sequence--even this spider and this moonlight between the trees, and even this moment and I myself. The eternal hourglass of existence is turned upside down again and again, and you with it, speck of dust!' Would you not throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse the demon who spoke thus? Or have you once experienced a tremendous moment when you would have answered him: 'You are a god and never have I heard anything more divine.'
What, if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you:'This Life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable time more; and there will be nothing new in it, but every pain and every joy and every thought and sigh and everything unutterable small or great in your life will have to return to you, all in the same succession and sequence--even this spider and this moonlight between the trees, and even this moment and I myself. The eternal hourglass of existence is turned upside down again and again, and you with it, speck of dust!' Would you not throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse the demon who spoke thus? Or have you once experienced a tremendous moment when you would have answered him: 'You are a god and never have I heard anything more divine.'
one of the most brilliant things ever written, wouldn't you agree? could read that every day until i die... and still get chills.
one of the most brilliant things ever written, wouldn't you agree? could read that every day until i die... and still get chills.
It's Eternal Recurrence and active nihilism or faith in Christ and Resurrection.
It's Eternal Recurrence and active nihilism or faith in Christ and Resurrection.
Hard to have it both ways but Fred N. still rocks... in a syphilitic sorta way.
Hard to have it both ways but Fred N. still rocks... in a syphilitic sorta way.
@PopeofEruke Huh...what?
@PopeofEruke Huh...what?
@PopeofEruke Guess you don't know too much about the Philosopher you aptly quoted in regards to the song.
@PopeofEruke Guess you don't know too much about the Philosopher you aptly quoted in regards to the song.