#life affirmation

In order to think and infer it is necessary to assume beings: logic handles only formulas for what remains the same. That is why this assumption would not be proof of reality: ‘beings’ are part of our perspective. The ‘ego’ as a being (—not affected by becoming and development). The fictitious world of subject, substance, ‘reason,’ etc., is needed—: there is in us a power to order, simplify, falsify, artificially distinguish. ‘Truth’ is the will to be master over the multiplicity of sensations:—to classify phenomena into definite categories. In this we start from a belief in the ‘in-itself’ of things (we take phenomena as real). The character of the world in a state of becoming as incapable of formulation, as ‘false,’ as ‘self-contradictory.’ Knowledge and becoming exclude one another. Consequently, ‘knowledge’ must be something else: there must first of all be a will to make knowable, a kind of becoming must itself create the deception of beings…If our ‘ego’ is for us the sole being, after the model of which we fashion and understand all being: very well! Then there would be very much room to doubt whether what we have here is not a perspective illusion—an apparent unity that encloses everything like a horizon. The evidence of the body reveals a tremendous multiplicity; it is allowable, for purposes of method, to employ the more easily studied, richer phenomena as evidence for the understanding of the poorer. Finally: supposing everything is becoming, then knowledge is possible only on the basis of belief in being…If there ‘is only one being, the ego’ and all other ‘being’ is fashioned after its model—if, finally, belief in the ‘ego stands or falls with belief in logic, i.e., the metaphysical truth of the categories of reason; if, on the other hand, the ego proves to be something in a state of becoming: then— … Continual transition forbids us to speak of ‘individuals,’ etc; the ‘number’ of beings is itself in flux. We would know nothing of time and motion if we did not, in a coarse fashion, believe we see what is at ‘rest’ beside what is in motion. The same applies to cause and effect, and without the erroneous conception of ‘empty space’ we should certainly not have acquired the conception of space. The principle of identity has behind it the ‘apparent fact’ of things that are the same. A world in a state of becoming could not, in a strict sense, be ‘comprehended’ or ‘known’; only to the extent that the ‘comprehending’ and ‘knowing’ intellect encounters a coarse, already-created world, fabricated out of mere appearances but become firm to the extent that this kind of appearance has preserved life—only to this extent is there anything like ‘knowledge’; i.e., a measuring of earlier and later errors by one another

Brief History of Philosophy + I Treat u like Hermes

To laugh is to affirm life, even the suffering in life.