February 2012
21 posts
“Only that which has no history is definable.”
– Friderich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals (via thefireandtherose)
“A thought comes when it will, not when I will.”
– Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (via sparkandmettle)
“The very word ‘Christianity’ is a misunderstanding - at bottom there was only...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche (via x-miserable)
“No artist tolerates reality.”
– Nietzsche (via 3dbrooke)
“One must shed the bad taste of wanting to agree with many. Good is no longer...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil (via invictvs)
“The desire to bear the entire and ultimate responsibility for one’s actions...”
– Nietzsche Beyond Good and Evil (via otiosity)
“Against that kind of “good will” (a will to deny life truly, actively) there is...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good And Evil (via aidsnegligee)
“Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche (via winstonsmithnyc)
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“Now I die and decay, and in an instant I shall be nothingness. Souls are as...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche.
Wasted Mystic: 40 Nietzsche-isms →
wastedmystic:
1. People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.
2. He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted.
3. The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike…
“If one seeks relief from unbearable pressure one is to eat hashish.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche (via gutesdesignist)
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“Everyone who has ever built anywhere a “new heaven” first found the power...”
– (via allwindows)
“Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?”
– Friedrich Nietzsche (via presentomenforfuture)
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“What then is truth? A movable host of metaphors, metonymies, and...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche (1873)
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“Die Mittel, mit denen Julius Caesar sich gegen Kränklichkeit und Kopfschmerzen...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche, 1888. Noch ein Problem der Diät.
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“We believe that we know something about the things themselves when we speak of...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche (1873)
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“Is language the adequate expression of all realities?”
– Friedrich Nietzsche.
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“Once upon a time, in some out of the way corner of this universe, poured out and...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche (On Truth & Lie in an Extra-Moral Sense, 1873)
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“Underneath this reality in which we live and have our being, another and...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche, 1872.
September 2011
1 post
“I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche (via forthedeaf)
July 2011
2 posts
“What if a demon were to creep after you one night, in your loneliest loneliness,...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche (via journeytoenlightenment)
“What labels me, negates me.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche (via girlwithoutwings)
August 2010
1 post
Owing to a scrupulosity peculiar to myself, which I confess reluctantly, — it concerns indeed morality, — a scrupulosity, which manifests itself in my life at such an early period, with so much spontaneity, with so chronic a persistence and so keen an opposition to environment, epoch, precedent and ancestry that I should have been almost entitled to style it “â priori”...
July 2010
14 posts
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The Madman.
The infamous “God is dead” passage (formatted for clarity in reading).
Have you ever heard of the madman who on a bright morning, lighted a lantern and ran to the market-place calling out unceasingly: “I seek God! I seek God!” As there were many people standing about who did not believe in God, he caused a great deal of amusement.
“Why? Is he lost?” said...
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Origin of the Logical.
Where has logic originated in men’s heads? Undoubtedly out of the illogical, the domain of which must originally have been immense. But numberless beings who reasoned otherwise than we do at present, perished; albeit that they may have come nearer to truth than we! Whoever, for example, could not discern the “like” often enough with regard to food, and with regard to animals...
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Consciousness.
Consciousness is the last and latest development of the organic and hence also what is most unfinished and unstrong. Consciousness gives rise to countless errors that lead an animal or man to perish sooner than necessary, “exceeding destiny,” as Homer puts it. If the conserving association of the instincts were not so very much more powerful, and if it did not serve on the whole as a...
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On The History of Moral Feelings, s.50.
Desire to arouse pity.1
In the most noteworthy passage of his self‑portrait, La Rochefoucauld certainly hits the mark when he warns all reasonable men against pity,2 when he advises them to leave it to those common people who need passions (because they are not directed by reason) to bring them to the point of helping the sufferer and intervening energetically in a misfortune. For pity, in his...
“It is a new step towards independence once a man dares to express opinions that...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche.
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“That something is irrational is no argument against its existence, but rather a...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche.
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“There is no pre-established harmony between the furthering of truth and the good...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche.
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“Whoever thinks more deeply knows that he is always wrong, whatever his acts and...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche.
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“In civilized circumstances, everyone feels superior to everyone else in at least...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche.
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“All idealists imagine that the causes they serve are significantly better than...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche.
Four Errors
iwoulddie4u:
Man has been reared by his errors: first he never saw himself other than imperfectly, second he attributed to himself imaginary qualities, third he felt himself in a false order in rank with animal and nature, fourth he continually invented new tables of values and for a time took each of them to be eternal and unconditional, so that now this, now, that human drive and state took...
inennui:
Only by forgetting this primitive world of metaphor can one live with any repose, security, and consistency: only by means of the petrification and coagulation of a mass of images which originally streamed from the primal faculty of human imagination like a fiery liquid, only in the invincible faith that this sun, this window, this table is a truth in itself, in short, only by...
inennui:
But man has an invincible inclination to allow himself to be deceived and is, as it were, enchanted with happiness when the rhapsodist tells him epic fables as if they were true, or when the actor in the theater acts more royally than any real king. So long as it is able to deceive without injuring, that master of deception, the intellect, is free; it is released from its former slavery...
June 2010
30 posts
“God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we comfort...”
– Nietzsche (via inennui)
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“People who do not feel secure in society employ every opportunity afforded by...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
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“He who does not know how to put his thoughts on ice ought not to enter into the...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche.
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“Under peaceful conditions, a warlike man sets upon himself.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche.
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"On Truth and Lie in an Extra-Moral Sense"
For so far we have heard only of the duty which society imposes in order to exist: to be truthful means to employ the usual metaphors. Thus, to express it morally, this is the duty to lie according to a fixed convention, to lie with the herd and in a manner binding upon everyone. Now man of course forgets that this is the way things stand for him. Thus he lies in the manner indicated,...
Amor Fati
inennui:
Amor fati is a Latin phrase coined by Nietzsche loosely translating to “love of fate” or “love of one’s fate”. It is used to describe an attitude in which one sees everything that happens in one’s life, including suffering and loss, as good. That is, one feels that everything that happens is destiny’s way of reaching its ultimate purpose, and so should be considered good. Moreover, it...
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“The psychology of the orgiastic as an overflowing feeling of life and strength,...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight Of The Idols.
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“In the mountains of truth you will never climb in vain: either you will get up...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche