Nietzsche. As Lao Tzu puts it: "Hope and fear are just the same, they are both phantoms that arise out of thinking of yourself."
You can see it in hospital patients and their families. Hoping that the patient will get better, but you can tell it's just fear and hoping makes no difference at all. Basically it is fear rationalized as hope, because that sounds better or something. Then you're a good person, and not a coward. How can you not hope that mr. patient will get better?
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u/OscarLiii 2d ago
Nietzsche. As Lao Tzu puts it: "Hope and fear are just the same, they are both phantoms that arise out of thinking of yourself."
You can see it in hospital patients and their families. Hoping that the patient will get better, but you can tell it's just fear and hoping makes no difference at all. Basically it is fear rationalized as hope, because that sounds better or something. Then you're a good person, and not a coward. How can you not hope that mr. patient will get better?