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This clip is from the movie 'When Nietzsche Wept (2007)' starring @armandassante.official which is based on the novel by the same name written by Irvin D.Yalom. Yalmo's book is fictional but contains many references. The book relates a fictional meeting between the doctor Josef Breuer and the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. These words that Nietzsche spoke are from the book 'The Gay Science'. It goes:

The heaviest burden: “What, if some day or night, a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: ‘This life, as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more; and there will be nothing new in it, but every pain and every joy and every thought and sigh and everything unutterably small or great in your life must return to you, all in the same succession and sequence — even this spider and this moonlight between the trees and even this moment and I myself. The eternal hourglass of existence is turned over again and again—and you with it, speck of dust!’ Would you not throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse the demon who spoke thus? Or have you once experienced a tremendous moment when you would have answered him: ‘You are a god, and never have I heard anything more divine!’ If this thought were to gain possession of you, it would change you as you are, or perhaps crush you. The question in each and every thing, “do you want this once more and innumerable times more?” would lie upon your actions as the greatest weight. Or how well disposed would you have to become to yourself and to life to crave nothing more fervently than this ultimate eternal confirmation and seal?"

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"Your ideas about yourself change from day to day and from moment to moment. Your self image is the most changeful thing you have. It is utterly vulnerable, at the mercy of a passerby. A bereavement, the loss of a job, an insult, and your image of yourself, which you call your person, changes deeply. To know what you are, you must first investigate and know what you are not. And to know what you are not, you must watch yourself carefully, rejecting all that does not necessarily go with the basic fact: “I am.” Our usual attitude is of “I am this.” Consistently and perseveringly separate the “I am” from “this” or “that” and try to feel what it means to be, without being “this” or “that.” All our habits go against it and the task of fighting them is long and hard sometimes, but clear understanding helps significantly. The more clearly you understand that on the level of the mind you can be described in negative terms only, the more quickly you will come to the end of your search and realize your limitless being."

- from 'I am That: Talks with Sri Nisagradatta Maharaj'

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"You are totally responsible for yourself-whatever you do! It is no good blaming environment, heritage, my mother and father were like this therefore I am like that. Society is ugly so I am caught in society – you follow? This demands that you work. Either you work hard, you work very hard to earn money – right? Spend years and years, day after day, night after night, year in and year out, to get money – do you realize how you all work, all the human beings work? And we don’t work an infinitesimal of that energy inwardly. And we have become feeble, irresponsible. So we don’t change because we don’t want to – simple. If you want to do something you do it!

Sirs, we have answered most of the questions. It is nearly twelve o’clock. Really there is no question at all. There are no questions at all, and therefore no answers. You are the problem. You are the trap. One is caught in this prison and you have to work like – I was going to say hell – you have to work, observe and all the rest of it must come from your heart and your mind, then you are a total human being, free. Where there is freedom there is no fear. Or rather where there is fear there is no freedom. And when there is freedom you don’t need any god – right? Right sirs."

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One of Nietzsche’s major ideas is known as the #willtopower where he argues that humanity has lost its way.
We used to be #heroes who respected #power #glory and #strength but now we are slaves to Judeo-Christian meekness.

For #Nietzsche we need an inversion of values that makes humans great again.

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from 'Misfortune (1886)'
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"That is my point of view, and I adhere to that absolutely and unconditionally. Truth, being limitless, unconditioned, unapproachable by any path whatsoever, cannot be organized; nor should any organization be formed to lead or to coerce people along any particular path. If you first understand that, then you will see how impossible it is to organize a belief. A belief is purely an individual matter, and you cannot and must not organize it. If you do, it becomes dead, crystallized; it becomes a creed, a sect, a religion, to be imposed on others. This is what everyone throughout the world is attempting to do. Truth is narrowed down and made a plaything for those who are weak, for those who are only momentarily discontented. Truth cannot be brought down, rather the individual must make the effort to ascend to it. You cannot bring the mountain-top to the valley. If you would attain to the mountain-top you must pass through the valley, climb the steeps, unafraid of the dangerous precipices."

- Truth is a Pathless Land (1929), Jiddu Krishnamurti

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a profound transformation.

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Who makes us ignorant? We ourselves. We put our hands over our eyes and weep that it is dark.

From the Book 'Pearls of Wisdom'

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This clip is taken from 'George Orwell: A Life in Pictures' which is a 2003 BBC Television docudrama telling the life story of the British author George Orwell. Chris Langham plays the part of Orwell. No surviving sound recordings or video of the real George Orwell have been found.

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Eric Arthur Blair known by his pen name George Orwell, was an English novelist, essayist, journalist and critic. His work is characterised by lucid prose, biting social criticism, total opposition to totalitarianism, and outspoken support of democratic socialism. ( wikipedia ) by @thephilosophyquote

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"Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom."

from 'Our Knowledge of the External World (1914)' by @thephilosophyquote

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