John DerbyshireI preach that odd defiant melancholy that sees the dreadful loneliness of the human soul and the pitiful disaster of human life as ever redeemable and redeemed by compassion, friendship and love.
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Friedrich Nietzsche wrote, “I preach that odd defiant melancholy that sees the dreadful loneliness of the human soul and the pitiful disaster of human life as ever redeemable and redeemed by compassion, friendship and love.” This is a quote from Beyond Good and Evil, a collection of his works. Nietzsche is part of the philosophical movement known as existentialism. He believes that humans must always be ready to confront their own mortality, because death is one of the most important aspects of living. Humans must always be able to embrace life even in its worst moments, for this will lead to an understanding of life’s most important truths.
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