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11 hours ago · Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good And Evil, German Philosophy, Philosophy Friedrich NietzscheFriedrich Nietzsche, a German philosopher from the second half of...
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SUPPOSING that Truth is a womanwhat then? Is there not ground for suspecting that all philosophers, in so far as they have been dogmatists, have failed to understand womenthat the terrible seriousness and clumsy importunity with which they have usually paid their addresses to Truth, have been unskilled and unseemly methods for winning a woman? Cert...
9. You desire to LIVE \\"according to Nature\\"? Oh, you noble Stoics, what fraud of words! Imagine to yourselves a being like Nature, boundlessly extravagant, boundlessly indifferent, without purpose or consideration, without pity or justice, at once fruitful and barren and uncertain: imagine to yourselves INDIFFERENCE as a powerhow COULD you live i...
12. As regards materialistic atomism, it is one of the best-refuted theories that have been advanced, and in Europe there is now perhaps no one in the learned world so unscholarly as to attach serious signification to it, except for convenient everyday use (as an abbreviation of the means of expression)thanks chiefly to the Pole Boscovich: he and t...
28. What is most difficult to render from one language into another is the TEMPO of its style, which has its basis in the character of the race, or to speak more physiologically, in the average TEMPO of the assimilation of its nutriment. There are honestly meant translations, which, as involuntary vulgarizations, are almost falsifications of the or...
32. Throughout the longest period of human historyone calls it the prehistoric periodthe value or non-value of an action was inferred from its CONSEQUENCES; the action in itself was not taken into consideration, any more than its origin; but pretty much as in China at present, where the distinction or disgrace of a child redounds to its parents, th...
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Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future (German: Jenseits von Gut und Böse: Vorspiel einer Philosophie der Zukunft) is a book by philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche that covers ideas in his previous work Thus Spoke Zarathustra but with a more polemical approach. It was first published in 1886 under the publishing house C. G ...
- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
- Germany
- 1886
- Jenseits von Gut und Böse. Vorspiel einer Philosophie der Zukunft
- On the Prejudices of Philosophers Quotes. To recognize untruth as a condition of life—that certainly means resisting accustomed value feelings in a dangerous way; and a philosophy that risks this would by that token alone place itself beyond good and evil.
- The Free Spirit Quotes. Indeed, what forces as at all to suppose that there is an essential opposition of “true” and “false”? Is it not sufficient to assume degrees of apparentness and, as it were, lighter and darker shadows and shades of appearance—different “values,” to use the language of painters?
- What Is Religious Quotes. Modern philosophy, being an epistemological skepticism, is, covertly or overtly, anti-Christian—although, to say this for the benefit of more refined ears, by no means anti-religious.
- Epigrams and Interludes Quotes. There are no moral phenomena at all, but only a moral interpretation of phenomena— Related Characters: Nietzsche (speaker), Plato.
These drives are physiological, stemming from the will to survive. Moreover, these drives also require untruth as much as truth. Considered from this perspective, Nietzsche finds the philosophy of the past to be less of a search for truth than an unconscious expression of philosophers’ moral prejudices.
Recommended translation: Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future, trans. Walter Kaufmann, Random House, 1966. Excerpt: The will to truth which will still tempt us to many a venture, that famous truthfulness of which all philosophers so far have spoken with respect—what questions has this will to truth not laid before us!
