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

From: "The Antichrist" by Nietzsche in Germany

Original text:

Whoever will eventually shock the world with his voice will remain silent for a long time.

Whoever ignites lightning will be like a cloud forever.

Translation:

If you want to be a person who shocks the world, you must first endure a long period of silence. Whoever will eventually ignite lightning must be a person who has been wandering for a long time.

Appreciation:

Nietzsche wants to establish a new philosophy, a philosophy that puts the will of life above reason, an irrational philosophy. As a challenge to reason, he proposed the theory of will to power. The place of God, the place of traditional metaphysics, is replaced by will to power.

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

Nietzsche compared the different characteristics of will to power and reason. The characteristics of reason are: calmness, precision, logic, stiffness, and abstinence; the characteristics of will to power are: passion, desire, wildness, activity, and fighting. . Powerful will originates from life and returns to life. It is the real life.

Although life is short, as long as you have a strong will, a will to create, and become a spiritual strongman, you can realize your own value. The will to power, as the highest value measure, on the one hand affirms the value of life, and on the other hand it also defends the inequality in the world.

In Nietzsche's view, human beings, like natural life, are divided into strong and weak. The strong are always a minority, and the weak are the majority. History and culture are created by a few strong people, and they rule the weak as a matter of course. Nietzsche overthrew the divine hierarchy and affirmed the human hierarchy.

Extended information:

Creative background:

Nietzsche also held a critical attitude towards modern rationality. He first attacked the rational philosophers. He pointed out: The first characteristic of philosophers is their lack of sense of history. For thousands of years, everything that philosophers have dealt with has become a conceptual mummy. The role of reason is nothing more than to freeze the flowing history and use some eternal concepts to frame living reality.

The result is to kill the process of birth and death of things and kill life. This world is a world full of chance, turbulence, and elusiveness. There is no reality, everything is fluid, ungraspable, and evasive. The second characteristic of philosophers is to "reject the evidence of the senses" and reverse the real world and the imaginary world.

Perceptual evidence is real and credible, but lies are inserted into it when processed. The third characteristic of philosophers is to confuse the beginning and the end. They deny the process of growth and evolution. The fourth characteristic of philosophers is to use the "reason" in language to force people to make mistakes. "Is" is confused with "existence", making falsehoods appear true and truths seeming false, deceiving ignorant people.

He believes that it is absurd for people from Socrates to modern people to fanatically appeal to reason. The reason why human beings advocate reason is that they expect it to bring freedom and happiness to people; however, the result is exactly the opposite. Reason is always the enemy of human instinct, causing greater suffering to people.

It is correct to criticize the fallacies brought by reason, but we cannot deny the existence of reason, its historical status and role. Rationality is the symbol of human progress and the fruit of the process of human civilization. Some outstanding philosophers in history used rational weapons to observe and understand the world.

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