'Amor Fati'

[A Pathetic Dynasty]

'Amor fati' is supposedly one of Nietzsche's central philosophies... but it's also fairly elusive. All I can figure is that it's roughly translated to 'love of destiny' and somehow involves individualism? Can anyone help clarify this, to any extent?

 

[Redoubtable]

"Amor Fati" translates

"the love of the divine injunction"

err

"the love of heavenly determination"

err

"the love of god's command"

 

[EvilPoet]

Amor Fati - Love of fate

For the New Year. I still live, I still think; I must still live, for I must still think. Sum, ergo cogito: Congo, ergo sum. Today everyone takes the liberty of expressing his wish and his favorite thought: well, I also mean to tell what I have wished for myself today, and what thought first crossed my mind this year-a thought which ought to be the basis, the pledge and the sweetening of all my future life! I want more and more to perceive the necessary characters in things as the beautiful-I shall thus be one of those who beautify things. Amor fati: let that henceforth be my love! I do not want to wage war with the ugly. I do not want to accuse, I do not want even to accuse the accusers. Looking aside, let that be my sole negation! And all in all, to sum up: I wish to be at any time hereafter only a yea-sayer!" -The Gay Science


"My formula for greatness in man is amor fati: that a man should wish to have nothing altered, either in the future, the past, or for all eternity. Not only must he endure necessity, and on no account conceal it-all idealism is falsehood in the face of necessity-but he must love it." -Ecco Homo