"Philosophy, as I have hitherto understood and lived it, is a voluntary quest for even the most detested and notorious sides of existence…"
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"Such an experimental philosophy as I live anticipates experimentally even the possibilities of the most fundamental nihilism; but this does not mean that it must halt at a negation, a No, a will to negation.
It wants rather to cross over to the opposite of this. . . "
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". . . – to a Dionysian affirmation of the world as it is, without subtraction, exception, or selection…
The highest state a philosopher can attain: to stand in a Dionysian relationship to existence – my formula for this is amor fati [love of fate]."
📌Nietzsche
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Acceptance of one's fate, acceptance of the way things are, helps to take the edge off of the futility and frustration of existence