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My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati: that one wants nothing to
be different, not forward, not backward, not in all eternity. Not merely bear what
is necessary, still less conceal it—all idealism is mendacity in the face of what
is necessary—but love it.[6]
[6] Basic Writings of Nietzsche. trans. and ed. by Walter Kaufmann (1967), p. 714.
My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati: that one wants nothing to
be different, not forward, not backward, not in all eternity. Not merely bear what
is necessary, still less conceal it—all idealism is mendacity in the face of what
is necessary—but love it.[6]
[6] Basic Writings of Nietzsche. trans. and ed. by Walter Kaufmann (1967), p. 714.