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Eternal return11/27/2023 ![]() The question in each and every thing, ‘Do you want this again and innumerable times again?’ would lie on your actions as the heaviest weight! Or how well disposed would you have to become to yourself and to life to long for nothing more fervently than for this ultimate eternal confirmation and seal? Nietzsche follows up this picture of endless repetition with a challenge: The eternal hourglass of existence is turned upside down again and again, and you with it, speck of dust!’ ![]() ![]() What if some day or night a demon were to steal into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: ‘This life as you now live and have lived it you will have to live once again and innumerable times again and there will be nothing new in it, but every pain and every joy and every thought and sigh and everything unspeakably small or great in your life must 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. Offering his idea as a thought experiment, Nietzsche writes: In the penultimate section of The Gay Science, the same book in which he discusses the death of God, Nietzsche presents his idea of the eternal recurrence - a thought that occurred to him, he reports in his notebooks, while he was on one of his epiphanic hikes through the Swiss Alps.
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