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Friedrich Nietzsche (NEE-chuh, not NEE-chee) was a German philosopher of the 19 th century who today is one of the Western tradition’s most controversial figures. He launched blistering attacks on Christian morality and the stultifying way of life that he saw as its logical consequence. He befriended, then turned against, the superstar ...
Nov 5, 2011 · Indeed Nietzsche’s ethical thought seems to act as a kind of flypaper to the word “aesthetic,” which sticks to it in a variety of more and less appropriate meanings. However, given the availability of the distinction between the moral and the ethical, which marks out morality – in ways indebted of course to Nietzsche himself – as a ...
- Edward Harcourt
- 2011
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- Nietzsche Quotations from The Birth of Tragedy
- Nietzsche Quotations from Untimely Meditations
- Nietzsche Quotations from Human, All Too Human
- Nietzsche Quotations from Daybreak
- Nietzsche Quotations from The Gay Science
- Nietzsche Quotations from Thus Spoke Zarathustra
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- Nietzsche Quotations from The Twilight of The Idols
- Nietzsche Quotations from The Antichrist
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.”
May 30, 1997 · Friedrich Nietzsche. Friedrich Nietzsche was a German philosopher of the late 19th century who challenged the foundations of Christianity and traditional morality. He believed in life, creativity, health, and the realities of the world we live in, rather than those situated in a world beyond. Central to his philosophy is the idea of “life ...
Sep 23, 2023 · Nietzsche’s Übermensch, or “Overman”, is a fascinating concept. The Übermensch is someone who actively shapes their destiny and isn’t passive in the face of life’s challenges.
Apr 16, 2020 · There were several examples like this where there was an odd mismatch between extremely careful research and detail about what reading might underlie Nietzsche's ideas, but less care in the precise formulation of these ideas themselves, and less care in attribution of these positions to Nietzsche warranted by a weighing of the textual evidence ...
Greatness. Let us not underestimate the privileges of the mediocre. As one climbs higher, life becomes ever harder; the coldness increases, responsibility increases. Friedrich Nietzsche: The Antichrist.
