| Alas, the time of the most despicable man is coming, he that is no longer able to despise himself | But this attempt to find meaning cannot hold up either, as far as Nietzsche was concerned, and leads to its own kind of disillusionment, making it the third and final kind of nihilism |
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| The first kind is lack of purpose: When we have sought a meaning in existence that cannot be found | Procreation is only one aspect of flourishing |
Why things change has been a matter for thinkers since the beginning of western philosophy.
13| Nothing is stable and war and conflict is the most pointed expression of that fact | Parmenides born circa 515 BCE believed that change is an illusion, that all things are one and the same |
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| Often we are not even aware of these impulses | Schopenhauer reasoned that the best thing to do was renounce this will and to find peace instead in art and compassion |
Above all, a living thing wants to discharge its strength — life itself is will to power: self-preservation is only one of the indirect and most infrequent consequences of this.
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