Philosophy Blah

So, I have a friend who's all about Nietzsche, thinking he's big shit and all that. I guess he's okay, but I just never really got into him much, as I feel he's kind of full of himself. Nietzsche's big thing is his whole "life altering" statements, which are supposed to cause people to analyze their current thinking and blah blah blah. My friend sent me a list of 40 of Nietzche's statements which are claimed to be "belief shaking", but most of them are what I find rather bland and not surprising in the least, like Number 3 - "The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently," or Number 16 - "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages". Out of these forty, there are only two statements which I think people really should pay attention to:

4. There are no facts, only interpretations.

and

35. There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.

I feel that when one takes numbers 4 and 35 to heart, we can learn how to better understand the people with whom we share the world, and eventually can learn to better understand ourselves. By remembering that everything we think we know is influenced by our biases and interpretations, we can hopefully remember that everyone else's opinions are altered just as much as ours, and maybe this can help us better understand those whose world views we find odd or possibly unacceptable in our current paradigm. How much better would the world be if we stopped trying to fit everyone else into our views of what is "right" and instead accept that we can live differently from each other and still find common ground in happiness?

When one adds this viewpoint to #35's claim that our bodies know more than our minds, then true change can really take place. Instead of trying to regulate our bodies and the bodies of others by what one claims is "moral", "virtuous", or simply "right", we may instead realize that our bodies are naturally inclined to certain things, and by trying to deny the body of what's right we can ultimately harm a person and keep them from reaching their full potential. While I'm not saying we should all live our lives in a constant state of gluttony or debauchery, I think that accepting that our bodies each have different needs and that a cookie cutter philosophy towards life cannot let anybody live a truly fulfilling life, whether it is spiritually, sexually, morally, or philosophically. There is no right or wrong, there is only action and reaction. Positive and negative is merely in the eye of the beholder.