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Ideas for Antiphon, Pindar and Friedrich Nietzsche

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1. Philosophy / A. Wisdom / 1. Nature of Wisdom
14857 The highest wisdom has the guise of simplicity [Nietzsche]
14888 Wisdom prevents us from being ruled by the moment [Nietzsche]
1. Philosophy / A. Wisdom / 2. Wise People
20262 Don't use wisdom in order to become clever! [Nietzsche]
14863 Unlike science, true wisdom involves good taste [Nietzsche]
20383 The wisest man is full of contradictions, and attuned to other people, with occasional harmony [Nietzsche]
1. Philosophy / A. Wisdom / 3. Wisdom Deflated
14890 Suffering is the meaning of existence [Nietzsche]
18290 But what is the reasoning of the body, that it requires the wisdom you seek? [Nietzsche]
7170 'Wisdom' attempts to get beyond perspectives, making it hostile to life [Nietzsche]
1. Philosophy / B. History of Ideas / 2. Ancient Thought
2922 All intelligent Romans were Epicureans [Nietzsche]
1. Philosophy / B. History of Ideas / 4. Early European Thought
18330 Judging by the positive forces, the Renaissance was the last great age [Nietzsche]
1. Philosophy / C. History of Philosophy / 2. Ancient Philosophy / b. Pre-Socratic philosophy
2900 I revere Heraclitus [Nietzsche]
24146 All the major problems were formulated before Socrates [Nietzsche]
1. Philosophy / C. History of Philosophy / 2. Ancient Philosophy / c. Classical philosophy
2913 Thucydides was the perfect anti-platonist sophist [Nietzsche]
1. Philosophy / C. History of Philosophy / 4. Later European Philosophy / d. Nineteenth century philosophy
20255 Early 19th century German philosophers enjoyed concepts, rather than scientific explanations [Nietzsche]
20260 Carlyle spent his life vainly trying to make reason appear romantic [Nietzsche]
1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 1. Philosophy
7848 Philosophy begins in the horror and absurdity of existence [Nietzsche, by Ansell Pearson]
7846 Nietzsche thinks philosophy makes us more profound, but not better [Nietzsche, by Ansell Pearson]
2909 Thinking has to be learned in the way dancing has to be learned [Nietzsche]
7834 Great philosophies are confessions by the author, growing out of moral intentions [Nietzsche]
4520 I don't want to persuade anyone to be a philosopher; they should be rare plants [Nietzsche]
4424 A warlike philosopher challenges problems to single combat [Nietzsche]
1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 2. Invocation to Philosophy
14861 Philosophy ennobles the world, by producing an artistic conception of our knowledge [Nietzsche]
1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 5. Aims of Philosophy / a. Philosophy as worldly
14885 The first aim of a philosopher is a life, not some works [Nietzsche]
14887 You should only develop a philosophy if you are willing to live by it [Nietzsche]
24142 What matters is how humans can be developed [Nietzsche]
2930 The main aim of philosophy must be to determine the order of rank among values [Nietzsche]
1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 5. Aims of Philosophy / e. Philosophy as reason
24143 Thinkers might agree some provisional truths, as methodological assumptions [Nietzsche]
1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 5. Aims of Philosophy / f. Philosophy as healing
14889 Philosophy is pointless if it does not advocate, and live, a new way of life [Nietzsche]
1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 6. Hopes for Philosophy
14862 Philosophy is more valuable than much of science, because of its beauty [Nietzsche]
1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 7. Despair over Philosophy
14878 It would better if there was no thought [Nietzsche]
14881 Why do people want philosophers? [Nietzsche]
14876 Philosophy is always secondary, because it cannot support a popular culture [Nietzsche]
20256 What we think is totally dictated by the language available to express it [Nietzsche]
20107 How many mediocre thinkers are occupied with influential problems! [Nietzsche]
7167 Words such as 'I' and 'do' and 'done to' are placed at the point where our ignorance begins [Nietzsche]
7196 Pessimism is laughable, because the world cannot be evaluated [Nietzsche]
7137 Is a 'philosopher' now impossible, because knowledge is too vast for an overview? [Nietzsche]
14854 Deep thinkers know that they are always wrong [Nietzsche]
1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 8. Humour
14833 Comedy is a transition from fear to exuberance [Nietzsche]
18303 Reject wisdom that lacks laughter [Nietzsche]
1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 2. Possibility of Metaphysics
7080 Metaphysics divided the old unified Greek world into two [Nietzsche, by Critchley]
1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 3. Metaphysical Systems
20265 The desire for a complete system requires making the weak parts look equal to the rest [Nietzsche]
24125 Aristotle enjoyed the sham generalities of a system, as the peak of happiness! [Nietzsche]
23183 Different abilities are needed for living in an incomplete and undogmatic system [Nietzsche]
2892 Wanting a system in philosophy is a lack of integrity [Nietzsche]
1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 6. Metaphysics as Conceptual
20352 Nietzsche has a metaphysics, as well as perspectives - the ontology is the perspectives [Nietzsche, by Richardson]
1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 7. Against Metaphysics
14860 Kant has undermined our belief in metaphysics [Nietzsche]
1. Philosophy / F. Analytic Philosophy / 4. Conceptual Analysis
23188 Bad writers use shapeless floating splotches of concepts [Nietzsche]
7132 Philosophers should create and fight for their concepts, not just clean and clarify them [Nietzsche]
1. Philosophy / F. Analytic Philosophy / 5. Linguistic Analysis
20121 Grammar only reveals popular metaphysics [Nietzsche]
1. Philosophy / G. Scientific Philosophy / 3. Scientism
14859 If philosophy controls science, then it has to determine its scope, and its value [Nietzsche]
20143 Scientific knowledge is nothing without a prior philosophical 'faith' [Nietzsche]
1. Philosophy / H. Continental Philosophy / 3. Hermeneutics
24147 Thoughts are uncertain, and are just occasions for interpretation [Nietzsche]
23212 A text has many interpretations, but no 'correct' one [Nietzsche]