@QuoteNietzsche I've always read it as akin to his quote about beware of fighting monsters in case you become one yourself in doing so. In gazing into the emptiness of existence you too become emptied of values like the abyss. The abyss becomes a mirror that captures your soul in its reflection.
@torcargail@AhernHerbe8277 Or just create financial incentives to speak it like extra college grants if you do the Leaving Cert in Irish, being favoured in government jobs, and a lower tax rate if you can pass some regular Irish proficiency exams.
@bernardtjoy Is each part of the multiplicity trying to be uniquely something else or are all parts trying to be the same something else? If the former then that would just create a new multiplicity; if the latter then there must be a common unity with one will, i.e. not a multiplicity.
"If you only wished to be happy, this could be easily accomplished; but we wish to be happier than other people, and this is always difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are."
Charles de Montesquieu