All 10 Uses
recur
in
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
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- The idea of eternal return is a mysterious one, and Nietzsche has often perplexed other philosophers with it: to think that everything recurs as we once experienced it, and that the recurrence itself recurs ad infinitum!†
Chpt 1recurs = happens again
- The idea of eternal return is a mysterious one, and Nietzsche has often perplexed other philosophers with it: to think that everything recurs as we once experienced it, and that the recurrence itself recurs ad infinitum!†
Chpt 1
- The idea of eternal return is a mysterious one, and Nietzsche has often perplexed other philosophers with it: to think that everything recurs as we once experienced it, and that the recurrence itself recurs ad infinitum!†
Chpt 1recurs = happens again
- Will the war between two African kingdoms in the fourteenth century itself be altered if it recurs again and again, in eternal return?†
Chpt 1
- If the French Revolution were to recur eternally, French historians would be less proud of Robespierre.†
Chpt 1
- If every second of our lives recurs an infinite number of times, we are nailed to eternity as Jesus Christ was nailed to the cross.†
Chpt 1recurs = happens again
- Her dreams recurred like themes and variations or television series.†
Chpt 1 *recurred = happened again
- The situation would never recur.†
Chpt 2
- We must not dismiss this fancy as the recurrent dream of a man obsessed with the threat of impotence.†
Chpt 6
- As long as people lived in the country, in nature, surrounded by domestic animals, in the bosom of regularly recurring seasons, they retained at least a glimmer of that paradisiac idyll.†
Chpt 7recurring = happening repeatedly
Definitions:
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(1)
(recur) to happen repeatedly or a second time
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)