Love Life

We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The article “7 Gods and Goddesses of Love From World Mythology ” from the website Owlcation is an interesting article in that it shows that “in ancient times, ’love’ wasn’t purely regarded as the sort of affection or desire that existed between two humans.” Most of the love gods and goddesses were also associated with fertility and agriculture as well as war and destruction – “Mythologists often remind that ancient deities reflect the realities of life as humans perceive them. The above complex definitions of love deities might thus mirror man’s struggles to come to terms with the endless permutations of mortal love.”

About the author

Friedrich Nietzsche (15 October 1844 – 25 August 1900) was a German classical scholar, philosopher, and critic of culture, who became one of the most influential of all modern thinkers. He began his career as a classical philologist before turning to philosophy. He became the youngest person to hold the Chair of Classical Philology at the University of Basel in 1869 at the age of 24, but resigned in 1879 due to health problems that plagued him most of his life; he completed much of his core writing in the following decade. In 1889, at age 44, he suffered a collapse and afterward a complete loss of his mental faculties, with paralysis and probably vascular dementia. He lived his remaining years in the care of his mother until her death in 1897 and then with his sister Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche. Nietzsche died in 1900, after experiencing pneumonia and multiple strokes.