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Jan 23, 2014 · The first being Nietzsche’s (and contemporary’s) idea that suffering is inevitable and trying to change that fact is merely a denial of life, and the second being historical views towards suffering and death.
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1. “The insatiable will always finds a way to detain its creatures in life and compel them to live on, by means of an illusion spread over things.” 2. “Knowledge kills action, for action requires a state of being in which we are covered with the veil of illusion.” 4. “[The art of ] tragedy transforms those repulsive thoughts about the terrible or a...
5. “One has to take a somewhat bold and dangerous line with this existence: especially as, whatever happens, we are bound to lose it.” 6. “We labor at our daily work more ardently and thoughtlessly than is necessary to sustain our life because it is even more necessary not to have leisure to stop and think. Haste is universal because everyone is in...
10. “Every tradition grows ever more venerable — the more remote its origin, the more confused that origin is. The reverence due to it increases from generation to generation. The tradition finally becomes holy and inspires awe.” 11. “To escape boredom, man works either beyond what his usual needs require, or else he invents play, that is, work tha...
18. “Wherever there is madness there is also a grain of genius and wisdom… All superior men who were irresistibly drawn to throw off the yoke of any kind of morality and to frame new laws had, if they were not actually mad,no alternative but to make themselves or pretend to be mad.” 20. “Moderation sees itself as beautiful; it is unaware that in th...
24. “I want to learn more and more to see as beautiful what is necessary in things; then I shall be one of those who make things beautiful. Amor fati[love of fate]: let that be my love henceforth! I do not want to wage war against what is ugly. I do not want to accuse; I do not even want to accuse those who accuse. Looking away shall be my only neg...
35. “Man is something to be surpassed.” 37. “God is a thought which makes crooked all that is straight.” 38. “How many things are now called the worst evil, which are only twelve feet wide and three months long! But some day greater dragons will come into the world.” 40. “What is the ape to man? A laughing-stock or a painful embarrassment. And just...
48. “Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And when you look long into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.” 49. “A man’s maturity: that is to have rediscovered the seriousness he possessed as a child at play.” 51. “The thought of suicide is a great consolation: by means of it one gets succes...
69. “[L]et us guard ourselves better from now on... against the dangerous old conceptual fabrication that posited a ‘pure, will-less, painless, timeless subject of knowledge’; let us guard ourselves against the tentacles of such contradictory concepts as ‘pure reason,’ ‘absolute spirituality,’ ‘knowledge in itself.’” 70. “Particularly as knowers, l...
78. “That which does not kill me makes me stronger.” 80. “It is in our wild nature that we best recover from our un-nature, our spirituality.” 81. “When stepped on, the worm curls up. That is a clever thing to do. Thus it reduces its chances of being stepped on again. In the language of morality: humility.” 82. “Idleness is the beginning of all psy...
87. “Against boredom even the gods struggle in vain.” 89. “Great intellects are skeptical.” 90. “Sin, this supreme form of human self-desecration, was invented to block science, to block culture, to block every elevation and ennoblement of humanity; the priests rule through the invention of sin.”
These are profound ideas given that Nietzsche posed them from his deathbed, trying not to give up even as he slipped further and further into a painful and ultimately lethal brain disease. Nietzsche’s Ideas The Ubermensch Religion, and Ultimate Truth. Why did the Ubermensch need Nietzsche’s help? If they were so naturally superior and ...
Jun 24, 2021 · To a person of faith, Nietzsche's claim that "God is dead" sounds like an atheist philosopher claiming the victory of humanism over religion, or reason over superstition. But Wilkerson argues that Nietzsche isn't saying that humanism or Nietzsche himself has "killed" God.
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- “God Is Dead, and We Have Killed Him.” One of Friedrich Nietzsche’s most famous quotes concerns religion and the development of a secular society in Europe.
- “And Those Who Were Seen Dancing Were Thought to Be Insane…” “And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music,” is a quote which comes from The Gay Science, one of Nietzsche’s most famous works.
- “To Live Is to Suffer, to Survive Is to Find Some Meaning in the Suffering.” This quote has two parts, and makes two claims about the nature of life in general.
- “That Which Does Not Kill Us Makes Us Stronger.” In a similar vein to the previous quote, Nietzsche now goes even further in claiming that survival is not only the means by which we can find purpose in our lives, but that survival is always a strength.
This article examines how Nietzsche’s illness bears on his philosophical ideas. It demonstrates that the long-standard explanation for Nietzsche’s dementia—syphilis—is almost certainly false. The cause is much more likely to have been a brain tumor, which had caused him severe headaches and eye problems since childhood.
German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche’s famous declaration that God is dead echoed down the 20th century. This article explains what Nietzsche really meant by the oft-misunderstood statement. By Jack Maden | February 2022. 5-MIN BREAK.
