{"id":13796,"date":"2026-01-01T16:55:48","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T23:55:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/?p=13796"},"modified":"2026-01-01T16:55:48","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T23:55:48","slug":"for-the-new-year-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2026\/01\/01\/for-the-new-year-6\/","title":{"rendered":"For the New Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"x14z9mp xat24cr x1lziwak x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">Friedrich Nietzsche, <strong>The Gay Science<\/strong>, Book Four, #276, tr. Kaufmann:<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"x14z9mp xat24cr x1lziwak x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\">\n<blockquote>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">For the new year. &#8212; I still live, I still think: I still have to live, for I still have to think. <\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Sum, ergo cogito: cogito, ergo sum<\/span><em><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">. 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; which 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. <\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Amor fati<\/span><em><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">: 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><\/em><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"x14z9mp xat24cr x1lziwak x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">Nietzsche found it very difficult to let looking away be his only negation.\u00a0 And so will I.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 still have to think. Sum, ergo cogito: cogito, ergo sum. Today everybody permits himself the expression of his wish and his dearest thought: hence I, too, shall &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2026\/01\/01\/for-the-new-year-6\/\" 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":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nietzsche"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13796","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=13796"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13797,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13796\/revisions\/13797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}