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Then again there are Nietzsche's three terrible truths:

1. Existential: death and suffering are inevitable.*

2. Moral: life is amoral.

3. Epistemic: most of what we think we know about the world is illusory.

*I include being downvoted on HN, especially under the new voting regime, under the category of suffering.

Edit: a reference, with additional clarification and justification for those who dispute the abbreviated claims.

Leiter, Brian, The Truth is Terrible (February 22, 2014). Daniel Came (ed.), Nietzsche on Morality and the Affirmation of Life (Oxford University Press, Forthcoming). Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2099162 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2099162



Nietzsche is not about avoiding suffering though. Nor is he about "accepting" suffering.

His belief is about an act of will. That you "will" what happens to you. By this act we obtain power over life and the events in it. (not sure I fully agree... just stating what I understand).

"Was that life? Well then! Once more!" -from Thus Spoke Zarathustra.


Well, 2 and 3 are not true and 1 is leaving out a big part of the picture, which is that life and pleasure are quite attainable.


I don't think they're just "not true", but they are very generalised and ambiguous, and a lot can be said both for and against them.

Edit for clarity




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