Tuesday, November 11, 2014

Friedrich Nietzsche on a Fulfilling Life

Friedrich Nietzsche on Why a Fulfilling Life Requires Embracing Rather than Running from Difficulty

by Maria Popova

A century and a half before our modern fetishism of failure, a seminal philosophical case for its value.

More than a century before our present celebration of “the gift of failure” and our fetishism of failure as a conduit to fearlessness, Nietzsche extolled these values with equal parts pomp and perspicuity.



Read the entire article here: http://www.brainpickings.org/2014/10/15/nietzsche-on-difficulty/

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