No! Without suffering, the needs would be wanting which alone provide the stimulus to progress!... Without suffering, we should also be without enjoyment. For everything reaches our consciousness only by means of its opposite.
“To free us from torment means to rob us of pleasure.... But then we should no longer have any interest in life!”
“Civilization is a union, a hermaphrodite structure, of pleasure and pain—that is, masochism!!... The progress of mankind is only possible by means of the masochistic principle.”
Oh, cruel-sweet philosophy of Golgotha!! Eternally shalt thou remain the Moira and Kismet of humanity!!!
VII.
“Always the more, always the better of your kind shall perish, for it shall always be worse for you. So only—so only—does man grow upwards” (Nietzsche, “Zarathustra,” ii., p. 126).
Magnificent Nietzsche!
Now first do I grasp your “superman”!... Now I share your hatred of the every day and the average!
Away with the philistine cowardice which says, “Above all, do not go too far!... Do everything with moderation and for a definite end!... Never go too far, and never fall into extremes!”...
No!... Go forward with courage into the extreme!... Only slothfulness, comfortableness, and cowardice are afraid of a Turkish bath, with the subsequent cold douche!