“One never reacts more promptly or more blindly than when one should not react at all. A state of affairs is desired in which suffering shall cease; life is actually considered the cause of all ills — unconscious and insensitive states (sleep and syncope) are held in incomparably higher esteem than the conscious states; hence a dullness of the senses. The strength of a character is shown by the ability to delay and postpone reaction, a certain sense of indifference is just as proper to it, as involutariness in recoiling, suddeness and lack of restraint in “action”, is proper to weakness. The will is weak: and the recipe for preventing foolish acts would be: to have a strong will and to do nothing — contradiction. Relieving measures: absolute obedience, mechanical activity, total isolation from people and things that might exact immediate decisions and actions. A sort of self-destruction, the instinct of self-preservation is compromised…The weak person injures himself…That is the decadent type.” — Friedrich Nietzsche, from The Will To Power
Posted on: Tue, 15 Jul 2014 23:29:33 +0000
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