Eternal Recurrence
The heaviest thought: could you will this very life to return, again and again, without end? Only a life worth repeating is fully affirmed.
From Friedrich Nietzsche.
In Symbols of the Psyche
- The Eternal Return: All things return, endlessly: the heaviest thought.
- The Circle: Wholeness, without beginning or end.
- The Uroboros: The serpent that devours its own tail.
- The Door: The threshold between one state and another.
- The Ring: Bond, circle, and power.
More from Friedrich Nietzsche
Apollo and Dionysus · The Death of God · Nihilism · The Overman · The Revaluation of All Values · The Three Metamorphoses · The Will to Power