The beautiful problem of the value of life

From Lesley Chamberlain’s Nietzsche in Turin pg 121:

The paradox was that the realization of limitation was liberating. The Upper Engadine’s 5,500 feet above sea level stood for the msot desirable capacity in human beings to see far and over the heads of individual nations and people and creeds, the ability to sruvive by rising above the fray, and the need to go beyond the familiar world in order to see arbitrariness of its values. In Twilight, Nietzsche wrote of this extreme standpoint:

“One would have to be situated outside life, and on the other hand to know it as thoroughly as any, as many, as all who have experienced it, to be permitted to touch on the problem of the value of life at all”

It is a beautiful problem, the moment human beings realize they belong to no other realm but the present and have no God to whom they can pray.

Almost every day I have mustered enough energy for one or two hours to be able to see my whole conception from top to bottom: the enormous multiplicity of problems lay spread out before me as though in relief and clear in its lines ... it all fits together.