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In Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, the character Mary (Kirsten Dunst) twice repeats a line from Geneology of Morals: "Blessed are the forgetful, for they get the better even of their blunders." What aspect of Nietzsche's philosophy does this quote represent?
“Blessed are the forgetful, for they get the better even of their blunders.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche tags: beatitudes , bless , blessed , blunders , forget , forgetful , friedrich , memory , nietzsche
- Prelude
- Chapter I: on The Prejudices of Philosophers
- Chapter II: The Free Spirit
- Chapter III: What Is Religious
- Chapter IV: Maxims and Interludes
- Chapter V: The Natural History of Morals
- Chapter VII: Our Virtues
- Chapter IX: What Is Noble?
- See Also
Es scheint, dass alle grossen Dinge, um der Menschheit sich mit ewigen Forderungen in das Herz einzuschreiben, erst als ungeheure und furchteinflössende Fratzen über die Erde hinwandeln müssen
Aphorism 4
1. The falseness of an opinion is not for us any objection to it: it is here, perhaps, that our new language sounds most strangely. The question is, how far an opinion is life-furthering, life- preserving, species-preserving, perhaps species-rearing, and we are fundamentally inclined to maintain that the falsest opinions ... 1.1. Translator: w:Helen Zimmern
Aphorism 6
1. Gradually it has become clear to me what every great philosophy has been: namely, the personal confession of its author and a kind of involuntary and unconscious memoir; also that the moral (or immoral) intentions in every philosophy constituted the real germ of life from which the whole plant has grown. 1.1. 1966 edition, Translator: Walter Kaufmann
Aphorism 9
1. So you want to live 'according to nature?' Oh, you noble Stoics, what a fraud is in this phrase! Imagine something like nature, profligate without measure, indifferent without measure, without purpose and regard, without mercy and justice, fertile and barren and uncertain at the same time, think of indifference itself as power — how could you live according to this indifference? Living — isn't that wanting specifically to be something other than this nature? Isn't living assessing, preferr...
Aphorism 26
1. Niemand lügt soviel als der Entrüstete. 1.1. No one is such a liar as the indignant man.
Aphorism 29
1. Independence is an issue that concerns very few people: — it is a prerogative of the strong. And even when somebody has every right to be independent, if he attempts such a thing without havingto do so, he proves that he is probably not only strong, but brave to the point of madness. He enters a labyrinth, he multiplies by a thousand the dangers already inherent in the very act of living, not the least of which is the fact that no one with eyes will see how and where he gets lost and lonel...
Aphorism 33
1. "There is no other way: the feelings of devotion, self-sacrifice for one’s neighbor, the whole morality of self-denial must be questioned mercilessly and taken to court- no less than the aesthetics of “contemplation devoid of all interest” which is used today as a seductive hose for emasculation of art, to give it a good conscience" 1.1. trns: Walter Kauffmann
Aphorism 54
1. People used to believe in 'the soul' as they believed in grammar and the grammatical subject: people said that 'I' was a condition and 'think' was a predicate and conditioned — thinking is an activity and a subject must be thought of as its cause. Now, with admirable tenacity and cunning, people are wondering whether they can get out of this net — wondering whether the reverse might be true: that 'think' is the condition and 'I' is conditioned, in which case 'I' would be a synthesis that o...
Aphorism 55
1. There is a great ladder of religious cruelty, and, of its many rungs, three are the most important. People used to make human sacrifices to their god, perhaps even sacrificing those they loved the best ... Then, during the moral epoch of humanity, people sacrificed the strongest instincts they had, their 'nature,' to their god; the joy of thisparticular festival shines in the cruel eyes of the ascetic, that enthusiastic piece of 'anti-nature.' Finally: what was left to be sacrificed? In th...
Aphorism 67
1. Die Liebe zu Einemist eine Barbarei: denn sie wird auf Unkosten aller Übrigen ausgeübt. Auch die Liebe zu Gott. 1.1. Translation: Love of oneis a piece of barbarism: for it is practised at the expense of all others. Love of God likewise. 1.2. Source: Projekt Gutenberg-DE 1.3. Translation source: Penguin Classics edition, translated by R. J. Hollingdale, ISBN 014044923X
Aphorism 68
1. "Das habe ich getan" sagt mein Gedächtnis. Das kann ich nicht getan haben — sagt mein Stolz und bleibt unerbittlich. Endlich — gibt das Gedächtnis nach. 1.1. "I have done that", says my memory. "I cannot have done that" — says my pride, and remains adamant. At last — memory yields. 1.2. Source: Gutenberg-DE 1.3. Translation source: Hollingdale
Aphorism 69
1. One has only seen little of life, if one hasn't also seen the hand that mercifully — kills.
Aphorism 187
1. Kurz, die Moralen sind auch nur eine Zeichensprache der Affekte. 1.1. Translation: In short, systems of morals are only a sign-language of the emotions. 1.2. Source: Gutenberg-DE 1.3. Translated by Helen Zimmern
Aphorism 195
1. The Jews — a people "born for slavery" as Tacitus and the whole ancient world says, "the chosen people" as they themselves say and believe — the Jews achieved that miracle of inversion of values thanks to which life on earth has for a couple of millennia acquired a new and dangerous fascination — their prophets fused "rich", "godless", "evil", "violent", "sensual" into one and were the first to coin the word "world" as a term of infamy. It is in this inversion of values ... that the signif...
Aphorism 217
1. Selig sind die Vergesslichen: denn sie werden auch mit ihren Dummheiten "fertig." 1.1. Blessed are the forgetful: for they "get the better" even of their blunders.
Aphorism 227
1. Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?
Aphorism 257
1. Every enhancement of the type "man" has so far been the work of an aristocratic society—and it will be so again and again—a society that believes in the long ladder of an order of rank and differences in value between man and man, and that needs slavery in some sense or other.
Aphorism 261
1. Vanity is an atavism.
Aphorism 287
1. It is some basic certainty which the noble soul has about itself, something which does not allow itself to be sought out or found or perhaps even to be lost. The noble soul has reverence for itself. 2. What is noble? What does the word “noble” still mean to us today? What betrays, what allows one to recognize the noble human being, under this heavy, overcast sky of the beginning rule of the plebs that makes everything opaque and leaden? 3. It is not actions that prove him – actions are alw...
Works about Beyond Good and Evil 1. Leo Strauss#Seminar on Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil (1971-1972)
They never forgive us if they have once made a mistake BEFORE us (or even with REGARD to us)--they inevitably become our instinctive calumniators and detractors, even when they still remain our "friends."--Blessed are the forgetful: for they "get the better" even of their blunders.
Blessed are the forgetful: for they get the better even of their blunders. — Friedrich Nietzsche
BY FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE. View on Amazon. 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.” 3.
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