I am a little bit confused as to what this quote means: "My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be different, not forward, not backward, not in all eternity. Not merely bear what is necessary, still less conceal it—all idealism is mendaciousness in the face of what is necessary—but love it."
"all idealism is mendaciousness in the face of what is necessary" What specifically does he mean by that? Idealism is never necessary?
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What is necessity but the immediate and urgent needs of mortal, born of their will to gain, to emotional security to life without fear, uncertainty. What is necessary is not always what is jurisprudent, what is ideal or righteous.
Idealism finds its perfection in a perfected humanity and mankind, without which all falls short of what is ideal. The path towards an idealistic life, a Utopian idyll is paved with good intentions battling with need for immediate gratification, tantalising distractions from the cause resulting in a questioning of the quest for idealism itself arising from a need gratified and the urge allayed. The destiny has yet to be gained because of this meandering from the path.
What he means is what is right, what is juts, what is perfect is cast or set aside for what demands our immediate attention, what employs its wiles to divert energy from the course of idealism, if man is hungry he requires feeding, he waits not for the fruits of his diligent labours to bear fruit but takes from the nearest available source without consideration of suitability or idealism.
A matter of prioritisation, of the main priority of mortal to be fed, clothed and sheltered and when so comforted is then enabled toward the drive to idealism, a luxurious actualisation of his ideals. Survival at times supercedes realisation of an ideology, of an ideal world, of life perfected, embarked upon when man is able to hold love of an ultimate fate than mere survival in a harsh world bereft of Love...
Nietzsche Amor Fati