"I think what happened in that moment was that Friedrich Nietzsche had a brief instant where he saw all the cruelty of the world, all its pain. The pain that happens to the defenseless. He saw an animal being beaten, and he couldn't handle it. He had one of those brief moments. He saw that animals are beaten, animals suffer, children suffer, that the innocent are punished for no particular reason. He saw all the cruelty of the world, and instead of being cruel back, he took the cruelty inward. And he wept. He felt guilty for the cruelty of the entire world, and he couldn't handle it. And in the end, it destroyed him, broke his mind.
And the moral of the story? Well, there is no moral of the story. But be wary, you. Be wary of the cruelty of the world. But try not to beat yourself up about it any more than you have to. Try not to ruin yourself with guilt. We are all part of the world, and we all feel guilty for it.
We are all the man with the whip, the horse, and the man crying."
via Oliver Miller, ThoughtCatalog
And the moral of the story? Well, there is no moral of the story. But be wary, you. Be wary of the cruelty of the world. But try not to beat yourself up about it any more than you have to. Try not to ruin yourself with guilt. We are all part of the world, and we all feel guilty for it.
We are all the man with the whip, the horse, and the man crying."
via Oliver Miller, ThoughtCatalog
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