Friedrich Nietzsche, in Twilight of the Idols, Maxims and Arrows #8., did enunciate:
“Out of life's school of war: What does not destroy me, makes me stronger.”
Do you think he was agreeing with this, or, Do you think he was simply (ironically, contradictorily--even caustically), putting the known phrase: “What does not destroy me, makes me stronger”, in the contextual mouths of the war-mongers; and not something that is supposed to, by crude reductionism, make oneself feel better about their life or life-situation, at all?
For I hear people, a lot, quote but half the idea, being: “What does not destroy me, makes me stronger” without at all conjoining it, as it were, to its psycho-intentional base: “Out of life's school of war:”...?
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