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Full Idea
Be natural! But how, if one happens to be "unnatural"?
Gist of Idea
Be natural! But how, if one happens to be "unnatural"?
Source
Friedrich Nietzsche (The Will to Power (notebooks) [1888], §066)
Book Ref
Nietzsche,Friedrich: 'The Will to Power', ed/tr. Kaufmann,W /Hollingdate,R [Vintage 1968], p.43
A Reaction
Quite so, though Nietzsche isn't the person to offer a solution. Choose the route of Aristotle ('normal' human function), or Kant (escape from nature into reason).
| 6013 | Panaetius said we should live according to our natural starting-points [Panaetius, by Asmis] |
| 13318 | Nature doesn't give us virtue; we must unremittingly pursue it, as a training and an art [Seneca] |
| 13324 | Living contrary to nature is like rowing against the stream [Seneca] |
| 3069 | The art of life is more like the wrestler's than the dancer's [Aurelius] |
| 4856 | To live according to reason is to live according to the laws of human nature [Spinoza] |
| 4493 | Be natural! But how, if one happens to be "unnatural"? [Nietzsche] |
| 4494 | Not "return to nature", for there has never yet been a natural humanity [Nietzsche] |
| 4498 | 'Love your enemy' is unnatural, for the natural law says 'love your neighbour and hate your enemy' [Nietzsche] |