{"id":10039,"date":"2012-01-01T06:02:18","date_gmt":"2012-01-01T06:02:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/01\/01\/for-the-new-year-3\/"},"modified":"2012-01-01T06:02:18","modified_gmt":"2012-01-01T06:02:18","slug":"for-the-new-year-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/01\/01\/for-the-new-year-3\/","title":{"rendered":"For the New Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">One of the elements in my personal liturgy is a reading of the following passage every January 1st. I must have begun the practice in the mid-70s.&#0160; <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Friedrich Nietzsche, <strong>The Gay Science<\/strong>, Book Four, #276, tr. Kaufmann:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\"><em>For the new year<\/em>. &#8212; I still live, I still think: I still have to live, for I still have to think. <em>Sum, ergo cogito: cogito, ergo sum<\/em>. Today everybody permits himself the expression of his wish and his dearest thought: hence I, too, shall say what it is that I wish from myself today, and what was the first thought to run across my heart this year &#8212; what thought shall be for me the reason, warranty, and sweetness of my life henceforth. I want to learn to see more and more as beautiful what is necessary in things; then I shall be one of those who makes things beautiful. <em>Amor fati<\/em>: let that be my love henceforth! I do not want to wage war against what is ugly. I do not want to accuse. Looking away shall be my only negation. And all and all and on the whole: someday I wish to be only a Yes-sayer.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Nietzsche found it very difficult to let looking away be his only negation. And so shall I.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the elements in my personal liturgy is a reading of the following passage every January 1st. I must have begun the practice in the mid-70s.&#0160; Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science, Book Four, #276, tr. Kaufmann: For the new year. &#8212; I still live, I still think: I still have to live, for I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/01\/01\/for-the-new-year-3\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;For the New Year&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10039\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}