Definition: Love of fate.

References:

1. Nietzsche: believed we must look beyond hope to love of one's fate.

Insights:

1. Amor fati means the unconditional acceptance of all highs and lows of life including pain and suffering.
2. Amor fati means to close the gap between one's desires and reality, not striving for more desires, but desiring reality.

Principles:

1. Hope for nothing.
2. Do not hope for better, be better.

Quotes:

"War is the continuation of politics by other means."

- Carl von Clausewitz

Insights:

1. Many people value group values above themselves, and may be willing to die for their values. Collisions of culture will inevitably result in war.

Insights:

1. We overestimate our own skills and intelligence, and underestimate others.

Definition: The more options we have, the less satisfied we are with the option we choose.

Insights:

1. Variety is not freedom.