I should only believe in a God that would know how to dance. And when I saw my devil, I found him serious, thourough, profound, solemn: he was the spirit of gravity - through him all things fall.
The essence of human spirit would seem to be something static to Buddha: if it has an internal imperative to become something else (something higher or more spiritual), what self-disequilibrium could it suffer from that could nonetheless still be considered spiritual in Buddha's eyes? Nietzsche sought to explain this imperative for self-acculturation, for achieving rational self-mastery, for spiritualization, for self-radicalization and self-sublimation, by means of a "Will to Power" far more comprehensive than moderns (with only the cheapest and most facile grasp of "power") can understand. As a philhellene Nietzsche perceives and respects what the Greeks took for granted, that "power" above all else must be self-reflexive, an expression of aristic self-moderation (their anti-hybristic ethos and its correlative contempt for idiotia): "power" to the Greeks is moral and philosophical and cultural and political authority because it expresses itself in the hardest thing of all for humans to achieve, self-mastery.
Madness is rare in individuals--but in groups, parties, nations, and ages it is the rule.
Faith makes blessed. Consequently it lies.
"Christianity makes suffering contagious."
"A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything."
In life's school of wars, that which does not kill me, makes me stronger." -- Friedrich Niezsche
Also seen it as, "Out of life's school of war, what does not destroy me, makes me stronger."
