"LET US DARE TO GRASP" !

Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil / On the Genealogy of Morality (The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche: Volume 8), translated from the German, with an Afterword, by Adrian Del Caro (Stanford: CA: Stanford U. Press, 2014) (From "On the Genealogy of Morality": "We simply cannot conceal from ourselves what that entire willing that draws its direction from the ascetic ideal actually expresses: this hatred of the human, even more of the animal, even more of the material, this abhorrence of the senses, of reason itself, this fear of happiness and beauty, this longing to get beyond all appearance, change, becoming, death, desire, longing itself--all of this means, let us dare to grasp it, a will to nothingness, a counterwill against life, a rejection of the most fundamental presuppositions of life, but it is and remains a  will! . . . And, to say once more at the end what I said at the beginning: humanity would rather will nothingness than not will . . . " Id. at 349.).