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For ethics, there is only suffering and its cure.
- Sep 10, 2020
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"Sadness comforts me when happiness can't."
"Fight the devil and become the devil."
"Fight the devil and become the devil."
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"Everybody lies but it doesn't matter because nobody listens"
who said that?"Fight the devil and become the devil."
Nietzsche's. Mine is just a variation.who said that?
Sounds like nietzsche's " Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster"
There seems to be an inborn drive in all human beings not to live in a steady emotional state, which would suggest that such a state is not tolerable to most people. Why else would someone succumb to the attractions of romantic love more than once? Didn't they learn their lesson the first time or the tenth time or the twentieth time? And it's the same old lesson: everything in this life—I repeat, everything—is more trouble than it's worth. And simply being alive is the basic trouble. This is something that is more recognized in Eastern societies than in the West. There's a minor tradition in Greek philosophy that instructs us to seek a state of equanimity rather than one of ecstasy, but it never really caught on for obvious reasons. Buddhism advises its practitioners not to seek highs or lows but to follow a middle path to personal salvation from the painful cravings of the average sensual life, which is why it was pretty much reviled by the masses and mutated into forms more suited to human drives and desires. It seems evident that very few people can simply sit still. Children spin in circles until they collapse with dizziness.