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Whoever, like myself, prompted by some enigmatical desire, has long endeavoured to go to the bottom of the question of Pessimism ↖ Beyond Good and Evil ↖ States Of Being and free it from the half-Christian, half-German narrowness and stupidity in which it has finally presented itself to this century, namely, in the form of Schopenhauer ↖ Beyond Good and Evil ↖ Philosophers ’s philosophy; whoever, with an Asiatic and super-Asiatic eye, has actually looked inside, and into the most world-renouncing of all possible modes of thought—beyond Good and evil ↖ Beyond Good and Evil ↖ Moral Systems ↖ Paradoxes , and no longer like Buddha ↖ Beyond Good and Evil and Schopenhauer, under the dominion and delusion of Morality ↖ Beyond Good and Evil ↖ Moral Systems —whoever has done this, has perhaps just thereby, without really desiring it, opened his eyes to behold the opposite ideal: the ideal of the most world-approving, exuberant, and vivacious man, who has not only learnt to compromise and arrange with that which was and is, but wishes to have it again as it was and is, for all eternity, insatiably calling out da capo, not only to himself, but to the whole piece and play; and not only the play, but actually to him who requires the play—and makes it necessary; because he always requires himself anew—and makes himself necessary.—What? And this would not be—circulus vitiosus deus?