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In this video, I talk about Friedrich Nietzsche, Ecce Homo, skepticism, certainty, uncertainty, doubt, learning, truth, knowledge, and freedom.
In Ancient Greece, at the Temple of Apollo, three maxims of critical importance were inscribed. And one of these three, the one I’m most interested in at the moment, read, “certainty brings ruin.” And in Ecce Homo, Nietzsche wrote, “It is not doubt, it is certainty which makes mad…But to feel in this way one must be profound, abyss, philosopher…We all fear truth…” Even Socrates said that all he knew was that he didn’t know. So it seems that the wise are united in at least one quality: they refuse to be certain.
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Amazing video! 😊
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Carrying a choas
Carrying yourself
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“He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche
A profound quote that keeps me going.
RIP Nietzsche
We need more videos of Nietzsche philosophy
Thanks man🙏🙏
I think nietzsche is a pen name.
Although I like to entertain ideas, philosophies, and world views without accepting… Lao tzu and Nietzsche have been pivotal for my energy
There _is_ a real truth and a map living inside each of us. It is our deeper intelligence that has been called many names throughout human history, and in the teaching of _The New Message from God_ and specifically in its book of spiritual practice called _Steps to Knowledge, The Book of Inner Knowing_ – this intelligence is called Knowledge. Here is a quote from one of TNM teachings about Knowledge.
“Knowledge knows. Knowledge within you really knows why you are here and what you must do. It really knows who you must meet and where you must go. And yet Knowledge is dynamic. It is not simply having a prerecognition of things. It is moving in dynamic relationship with the movement of the world.
So if things change, which they are, if circumstances require a different set of actions, Knowledge responds immediately. So it is not like you have a plan that is already predescribed. It must constantly be adapting itself to the changing circumstances of life around you.
This is why static definitions are inherently incorrect because they cannot adapt. People try to adapt their experiences to their definitions of themselves, their definitions of what they are doing in life, but this is backwards.
Knowledge is able to respond in the moment. It is able to change the plan. It is able to redirect you if circumstances require it. That is why the man or woman of Knowledge must learn to live without a lot of personal definitions. “Well, this is who I am and this is what I do and this is how I am and this is what I believe and this is my belief system and this is what I think the world means and life means and purpose means and love means and so forth.”
People who are bound by all these definitions cannot move with life. They try to make life move according to their prescriptions, but they cannot move and flow with life. They are bound now by their own ideas and ideologies.
Therefore, in learning The Way of Knowledge you learn how to be present in the moment, how to be responsive to your environment, how to follow Knowledge and to learn to think like Knowledge thinks and to gain the great awareness of Knowledge, the great power of Knowledge, and the grace of Knowledge because remember, Knowledge is your relationship to God. It is the God within you.
So each person has this mysterious deeper Intelligence within them. Now obviously most people are not aware of this or connected to it sufficiently that it can really affect their thinking and their behavior. So it is really more like a potential even though Knowledge is really there.
You see, no matter how isolated anyone may feel they are in life, which is really the source of all human suffering, no matter how separate or cast out anyone may think they are or feel that they are, they are still connected to God. They are connected through Knowledge.
So it could be said, then, that taking the Steps to Knowledge is like taking the Steps to God—the God within you and the God within everyone else. Some people try to make every aspect of a person Godlike or connected to God, but this is not accurate.
The only thing that God created in you is Knowledge. Everything else is a product of your self-creation and co creation with other people living in Separation.”
You see, no matter how isolated anyone may feel they are in life, which is really the source of all human suffering, no matter how separate or cast out anyone may think they are or feel that they are, they are still connected to God or what or who made us. They are connected through Knowledge.
I say they refuse to be certain ’cause they have seen the very limitation of our knowledge and experience ’cause it is as limited as our perception and they are as limited as our sensors .
Next video suggestion: How to live with doubt.
My world view makes predictions and is more accurate at predicting the future then others that I frequently run into. I reject a lot of “common sense” out there as being chains made of lies.
His videos make a difference in life, Thankyou!
I’ve thought similar thoughts but not arranged in such a way. It’s also in my nature to think an exception to any rule or idea presented to me.
Try this: Don’t believe what you think; question what you think. The cure for certainty is curiosity.
I’m 99.99% sure that maintaining a healthy sense of doubt increases your chance of walking the path towards what is true and accurate.
I love how you can bring the audience to a place of visualization. Something that I use that really helps is knowing that there is a truth, and that we essentially are the truth. We don’t need to know the truth- that is an illusion manufactured though the academic textbook culture we’ve created. We are the truth! And then I am filled with a sense of completion, and harmony, because I stopped playing tricks on my Soul. There is nothing to look for, for we are the thing we are looking for.
Thank you so much for you content, it makes me clearer & deeper each time, and Nietzsche seems like a great philosopher 🙂
The map may change in accordance with the territory, but it will never become the territory itself. Knowledge can at best approximate truth, because truth has an infinite “fidelity,” and knowledge has a very limited fidelity: the “pixel size” of knowledge is the letters we use to make our words, and in doing so we are always flattening or compressing the truth in order that we might become able to apprehend it. Before I conclude that true knowledge is impossible, I will consider that conceptual knowledge may not be the only way of getting into contact with the truth. Could we encounter truth through different means, through “nonconceptual knowledge?” That’s a can of worms, but many mystical traditions the world over would answer in the affirmative.
It’s a level of freedom. Once you leave a cave, you enter into another, from which you also must free yourself.
Now I found out that the reason why I often overthink is because I’m obsessed with concreteness and certainty. To be free, I should get rid of it.
Love is the only truth. If we do have choice, then the most important choice to make is to love through the inevitable suffering from life. We must learn how to be in love to awaken to our divinity. Love yourself first and foremost to be the best lover to everyone. Enlightenment.
My openion to myself is that you should doubt once on yourself that whatever you are doing is the best or not then look for its betterment . Keep going and keep improving..