From the Flourishing edition, available from our online store
Existence is suffering. We don’t have to look far to see the truth of this dictum: there’s the news, of course, which is more often than not a litany of tragedies and atrocities. But even if we only look back on our own lives, suffering – both large and small – is ever-present. Partly, this is a function of how we remember. As Nietzsche said, “If something is to stay in the memory it ...
