ABSTRACT
Such an experimental philosophy as I live anticipates experimentally even the possibilities of the most fundamental nihilism; but this does not mean that it must halt at a negation, a No, a will to negation. It wants rather to cross over to the opposite of this – to a Dionysian affirmation of the world as it is, without subtraction, exception, or selection ... . The highest state a philosopher can attain: to stand in a Dionysian relationship to existence – my formula for this is amor fati.1
