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  • Nietzschean Übermensch in the sense of one who has embraced the impossible commandment of amor fati: Ich habe zu allem ja gesagt.

    Kafka and the Coincidence of Opposites 2007

  • Speaking, for example, of the neglect by his contemporaries of his work, Nietzsche writes: “I myself have never suffered from all this; what is necessary does not hurt me; amor fati [love of fate] is my inmost nature” (EH III: CW-4).

    Nietzsche's Moral and Political Philosophy Leiter, Brian 2007

  • Sickness, diseases, trouble many, but without a cause; [3620] It may be 'tis for the good of their souls: Pars fati fuit, the flesh rebels against the spirit; that which hurts the one, must needs help the other.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • The persistent slaughter in Iraq is not just the work of right wing fanatics and neocons, but of the information-managers who pumped their lies through the public air-waves and made the war a fati accompli.

    The Media��s Bloody Footprints 2006

  • The Latin stem fati, “enough,” probably referred to “yawning.”

    No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003

  • The Latin stem fati, “enough,” probably referred to “yawning.”

    No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003

  • The Latin stem fati, “enough,” probably referred to “yawning.”

    No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003

  • The Latin stem fati, “enough,” probably referred to “yawning.”

    No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003

  • But when the Nazis threatened to destroy first Germany and then the world, Jünger's combination of fastidious detachment, amor fati, and romantic nationalism was a poor way to resist them.

    An Exchange on Ernst Jünger Barr, Hilary 1993

  • All the books I had ever read about Mexico, and the thesis I had written at Princeton about my homeland, had been flawed by a fati weakness.

    Mexico Michener, James 1992

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