{"id":85,"date":"2004-08-20T07:28:00","date_gmt":"2004-08-20T07:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/opendna.com\/?p=85"},"modified":"2004-08-20T07:28:00","modified_gmt":"2004-08-20T07:28:00","slug":"the-greatest-weight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opendna.com\/blog\/2004\/08\/20\/the-greatest-weight\/","title":{"rendered":"The Greatest Weight"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><i><br \/>\nWhat, if some day or night a demon were to steal after you in your<br \/>\nloneliest loneliness and say to you: <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live<br \/>\nonce more and innumerable times more; and there will be nothing new in<br \/>\nit, but every pain and every joy and every thought and sigh and<br \/>\neverything unutterably small or great in your life will have to return to<br \/>\nyou, all in the same succession and sequence even this spider and this<br \/>\nmoonlight between the trees, and even this  moment and I myself.  The<br \/>\neternal hourglass of existence is turned  upside down again and again and<br \/>\nyou with it, speck of dust!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\nWould you not throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse the<br \/>\ndemon who spoke thus? Or have you once experienced a tremendous moment<br \/>\nwhen you would have answered him:<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;You are a god and never have I heard anything more divine!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\nIf this thought gained possession of you, it would change you as you are<br \/>\nor perhaps crush you; the question in each and every thing, &#8220;Do you desire<br \/>\nthis once more, and innumerable times more?&#8221; would lie upon your actions<br \/>\nas the greatest weight! Or how well disposed would you have to become to<br \/>\nyourself and to life to crave nothing more fervently than this ultimate<br \/>\neternal confirmation and seal?<\/i><\/p>\n<p>\nFriedrich Nietzsche, <u>The Gay Science<\/u>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What, if some day or night a demon were to steal after you in your loneliest loneliness and say to you: &#8220;This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more; and there will be nothing new in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opendna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/opendna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/opendna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opendna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opendna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/opendna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opendna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opendna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opendna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}