34: Self-Control
The Nietzsche Podcast
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Six Methods for Combating the Violence of a Craving
In the impulse, associating a painful idea, such as that of discredit disgust or offended pride, d then the dislocation of one's forces, and finally, general debility and exhaustion. These are the six methods, but the will to combat the violence of a craving is beyond our power,. equally with the method we adopt and the success we may have in applying it. In all this process, our intellect is rather merely the blind instrument of another rival craving, whether it be the impulse to repose, or the fear of disgrace and other evil consequences, or love. It is, at bottom, merely one impulse which is complaining of another. So now we will go section by section
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