Nietzsche: 9 Dark Lessons on Love That Will Change How You Love

You do not love the person. You love your desire for them, and those are two different things. Nine dark lessons from Friedrich Nietzsche on love: the desire that is loved in place of the thing desired, exclusive possession shaped exactly like ownership, love of the neighbour as flight from oneself, the pity that preserves the weakness it claims to fight, the edited version nobody can love, the union that only serves to remove discomfort, the jealousy that never lies about the structure, the friendship rarer than passion, and the only honest ruler: would you live it again? He asked twice and was refused twice. He died without ever having had a returned love. And even so the only definition that works without depending on having it is his. Which of the nine landed on you? Not the most beautiful one. The one you wanted to argue with. TAGS nietzsche,philosophy,love,relationships,jealousy,passion,friendship,lou salome,breakup,eternal recurrence,dark philosophy,self love