Basically we can cope with everything else, born as we are to an underground and battling existence; again and again we keep coming up to the light, again and again we experience our golden hour of victory, - and then there we stand, the way we were born, unbreakable, tense, ready for new, more difficult and distant things, like a bow that is merely stretched tauter by affliction.

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Today we see nothing that wants to expand, we suspect that things will just continue to decline, getting thinner, better-natured, cleverer, more comfortable, more mediocre, more indifferent, more Chinese, more Christian…

危险而美丽的东西。

尼采确实让我觉得历史研究或者至少哲学史研究是哲学研究中有必要的。这么强烈的情感和疯狂的修辞究竟是哪里迸发出来的？可以想见这些言论在当时是多么惊世骇俗。