You’ve lived this life before
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You’ve lived this life before
The mystical insight came to Nietzsche like a lightning flash: time eternally recurs – and life must be lived accordingly
by Mark Higgins
Nietzsche at PG: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/779
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@gutenberg_org I doubt that Nietzsche believed in literal eternal recurrence; the key phrase here is "and life must be lived accordingly." I read it as a sort of thought experiment tied to Nietzsche's ideas about amor fati, i.e. "*IF* you had to live this same life over and over again, with all of the same choices and outcomes, would you be satisfied with how you'd done?" It's an impossibly high standard to live up to, and more of an ideal to strive toward than everyday practical advice.