It means that if you want to achieve greatness, you must first endure loneliness.

Said by: the antichrist of Nietzsche, Germany

Original text:

Whoever will shock the world in the end will be deeply silent for a long time.

Whoever lights lightning lingers like a cloud for a long time.

Translation:

If you want to be a person who shocks the world, you must first endure a long silence. The person who finally ignites the lightning must be a long-term drifter.

Appreciate:

Nietzsche wants to establish a new philosophy, a philosophy that puts the will of life above rationality and an irrational philosophy. As a challenge to reason, he put forward the theory of strong will. Replace the position of God and traditional metaphysics with strong will.

The core of the theory of strong will is to affirm life and life. Strong will is not a secular force, but an instinctive, spontaneous and irrational force. It determines the essence and meaning of life. ?

Nietzsche compared the different characteristics of strong will and rationality. The characteristics of rationality are: calm, accurate, logical, straightforward and abstinence; The characteristics of strong will are: passion, desire, wildness, initiative and fighting. Strong will comes from life and belongs to life. This is the real life.

Although life is short, as long as you have strong will, create will and become a strong spiritual person, you can realize your own value. As the highest value measure, strong will not only affirms the value of life, but also defends the inequality in the world.

In Nietzsche's view, human beings, like natural life, have strong and weak points. The strong are always in the minority, and the weak are in the majority. History and culture are created by a few strong people, who naturally rule the weak. Nietzsche overthrew the hierarchy of God and affirmed the hierarchy of man.

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Creative background:

Nietzsche also criticized modern reason. He started as a rational philosopher. He pointed out that the first characteristic of philosophers is their lack of sense of history. For thousands of years, everything that philosophers have handled has become a conceptual mummy. The role of reason is nothing more than to solidify the flowing history and frame the living reality with some eternal concepts.

The result is to stifle the process of birth, aging, illness and death, and to stifle life. This world is full of contingency, uncertainty and unpredictability. Without reality, everything is fluid and can't be grasped and avoided. The second characteristic of philosophers is to "reject sensory evidence" and turn the real world and the imaginary world upside down.

Emotional evidence is true and credible, and only after processing can lies be stuffed in. The third characteristic of philosophers is confusion. They deny the process of growth and evolution. The fourth characteristic of philosophers is to force people to make mistakes by using "rationality" in language. "Yes" and "existence" are confused, and the false becomes true and really becomes false, deceiving ignorant people.

In his view, the crazy rational appeal from Socrates to modern people is absurd. The reason why human beings advocate rationality is that they expect rationality to bring freedom and happiness to people. However, on the contrary, reason goes against human instinct everywhere, causing greater pain.

The fallacy brought by critical rationality is correct, but the existence, historical position and function of rationality cannot be denied. Rationality is the symbol of human progress and the fruit of human civilization. Some outstanding philosophers in history used rational weapons to observe and understand the world.

There is nothing wrong with reason itself, and reason cannot be denied. Without reason, human beings cannot correctly understand the world and truth. Without reason, human beings will fall into a confused and terrible situation.