Guilt and Regret
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“Why fear my mistakes when I can say, ‘Do not do that again; for now, I forgive you’?”
“It is true that life must be understood backwards. But we forget the other truth: it must be lived forwards. The more I think about this, the clearer it becomes that life can never be fully understood while we are living it.”
Holding agency and moral luck in tension
Even if we retreat from outcomes to judge only inner character and intention, constitutive luck is already at work there; yet if we excuse everything due to luck, human agency vanishes, so we must hold personal responsibility and compassion for luck together.
“Be not disgusted, nor discouraged, nor dissatisfied, if thou dost not succeed in doing everything according to right principles; but when thou hast failed, return back again.”
“I want to learn more and more to see as beautiful what is necessary in things; then I shall be one of those who makes things beautiful. Amor fati: let that be my love henceforth! I do not want to wage war against what is ugly. I do not want to accuse; I do not even want to accuse those who accuse. Looking away shall be my only negation. And all in all and on the whole: some day I wish to be only a Yes-sayer.”
“A man's shortcomings are taken from his epoch; his virtues and greatness belong to himself.”
“To be ashamed only of what was really shameful, and to ignore men’s low opinion of other things.”