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Single Idea 14835
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Full Idea
Artists are by no means people of great passion, but they often pretend to be.
Gist of Idea
Artists are not especially passionate, but they pretend to be
Source
Friedrich Nietzsche (Human, All Too Human [1878], 211)
Book Ref
Nietzsche,Friedrich: 'Human, All Too Human', ed/tr. Faber,Marion [Penguin 1994], p.126
A Reaction
Presumably people can gradually become what they consistently pretend to be.
The
607 ideas
from Friedrich Nietzsche
20375
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Virtues must be highly personal; if not, it is merely respect for a concept
[Nietzsche]
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20138
|
Christianity is at war with the higher type of man, and excommunicates his basic instincts
[Nietzsche]
|
2915
|
Each person should devise his own virtues and categorical imperative
[Nietzsche]
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2916
|
The great lie of immortality destroys rationality and natural instinct
[Nietzsche]
|
2917
|
Christianity is a revolt of things crawling on the ground against elevated things
[Nietzsche]
|
2918
|
The story in Genesis is the story of God's fear of science
[Nietzsche]
|
23520
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Truth has had to be fought for, and normal life must be sacrificed to achieve it
[Nietzsche]
|
2920
|
A God who cures us of a head cold at the right moment is a total absurdity
[Nietzsche]
|
2919
|
'Faith' means not wanting to know what is true
[Nietzsche]
|
2921
|
Philosophy grasps the limits of human reason, and values are beyond it
[Nietzsche]
|
2922
|
All intelligent Romans were Epicureans
[Nietzsche]
|
2914
|
One must never ask whether truth is useful
[Nietzsche]
|
7079
|
Nietzsche resists nihilism through new values, for a world of becoming, without worship
[Nietzsche, by Critchley]
|
7080
|
Metaphysics divided the old unified Greek world into two
[Nietzsche, by Critchley]
|
23440
|
Nietzsche's judgement of actions by psychology instead of outcome was poisonous
[Foot on Nietzsche]
|
7078
|
The freedom of the subject means the collapse of moral certainty
[Nietzsche, by Critchley]
|
6869
|
Nietzsche thinks the human condition is to overcome and remake itself
[Nietzsche, by Ansell Pearson]
|
2860
|
The most boring and dangerous of all errors is Plato's invention of pure spirit and goodness
[Nietzsche]
|
1568
|
Nietzsche felt that Plato's views downgraded the human body and its brevity of life
[Nietzsche, by Roochnik]
|
2867
|
Christianity is Platonism for the people
[Nietzsche]
|
11090
|
Why do we want truth, rather than falsehood or ignorance? The value of truth is a problem
[Nietzsche]
|
20140
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We shouldn't object to a false judgement, if it enhances and preserves life
[Nietzsche]
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20355
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The ranking of a person's innermost drives reveals their true nature
[Nietzsche]
|
7834
|
Great philosophies are confessions by the author, growing out of moral intentions
[Nietzsche]
|
2868
|
Nature is totally indifferent, so you should try to be different from it, not live by it
[Nietzsche]
|
2291
|
A thought comes when 'it' wants, not when 'I' want
[Nietzsche]
|
2871
|
Wanting 'freedom of will' is wanting to pull oneself into existence out of the swamp of nothingness by one's own hair
[Nietzsche]
|
20381
|
It is psychology which reveals the basic problems
[Nietzsche]
|
2872
|
In the earliest phase of human history only consequences mattered
[Nietzsche]
|
20137
|
The great person engages wholly with life, and is happy to endlessly relive the life they created
[Nietzsche]
|
2874
|
Man is the animal whose nature has not yet been fixed
[Nietzsche]
|
2875
|
That which is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil
[Nietzsche]
|
2876
|
The thought of suicide is a great reassurance on bad nights
[Nietzsche]
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2877
|
Morality becomes a problem when we compare many moralities
[Nietzsche]
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2859
|
The idea of the categorical imperative is just that we should all be very obedient
[Nietzsche]
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2878
|
We see an approximation of a tree, not the full detail
[Nietzsche]
|
20134
|
Moralities extravagantly address themselves to 'all', by falsely generalising
[Nietzsche]
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2879
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In ancient Rome pity was considered neither good nor bad
[Nietzsche]
|
2880
|
The greatest possibilities in man are still unexhausted
[Nietzsche]
|
22394
|
Democracy diminishes mankind, making them mediocre and lowering their value
[Nietzsche]
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2881
|
Virtue has been greatly harmed by the boringness of its advocates
[Nietzsche]
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20139
|
Only aristocratic societies can elevate the human species
[Nietzsche]
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20373
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A healthy aristocracy has no qualms about using multitudes of men as instruments
[Nietzsche]
|
2882
|
Morality originally judged people, and actions only later on
[Nietzsche]
|
2883
|
Noble people see themselves as the determiners of values
[Nietzsche]
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2884
|
The morality of slaves is the morality of utility
[Nietzsche]
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20382
|
The four virtues are courage, insight, sympathy, solitude
[Nietzsche]
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2885
|
The noble soul has reverence for itself
[Nietzsche]
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20229
|
No authority ever willingly accepts criticism
[Nietzsche]
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20230
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The very idea of a critique of morality is regarded as immoral!
[Nietzsche]
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20380
|
Why should truth be omnipotent? It is enough that it is very powerful
[Nietzsche]
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20231
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People used to think that outcomes were from God, rather than consequences of acts
[Nietzsche]
|
20232
|
Get rid of the idea of punishment! It is a noxious weed!
[Nietzsche]
|
20233
|
Punishment has distorted the pure innocence of the contingency of outcomes
[Nietzsche]
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20234
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Morality prevents us from developing better customs
[Nietzsche]
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20235
|
Like animals, we seek truth because we want safety
[Nietzsche]
|
20236
|
Marriage upholds the idea that love, though a passion, can endure
[Nietzsche]
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20237
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Moral feelings are entirely different from the moral concepts used to judge actions
[Nietzsche]
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20238
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Treating morality as feelings is just obeying your ancestors
[Nietzsche]
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20240
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The Jews treated great anger as holy, and were in awe of those who expressed it
[Nietzsche]
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20241
|
Enquirers think finding our origin is salvation, but it turns out to be dull
[Nietzsche]
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20242
|
Things are the boundaries of humanity, so all things must be known, for self-knowledge
[Nietzsche]
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20243
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Human beings are not majestic, either through divine origins, or through grand aims
[Nietzsche]
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20244
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Christianity replaces rational philosophical virtues with great passions focused on God
[Nietzsche]
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20245
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Christianity hoped for a short cut to perfection, that skipped the hard labour of morality
[Nietzsche]
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20246
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If you feel to others as they feel to themselves, you must hate a self-hater
[Nietzsche]
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20247
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Christianity was successful because of its heathen rituals
[Nietzsche]
|
20248
|
People do nothing for their real ego, but only for a phantom ego created by other people
[Nietzsche]
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20249
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Our knowledge of the many drives that constitute us is hopelessly incomplete
[Nietzsche]
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20250
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We may be unable to remember, but we may never actually forget
[Nietzsche]
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20251
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Actions done for a purpose are least understood, because we complacently think it's obvious
[Nietzsche]
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20252
|
Marriage is too serious to be permitted for people in love!
[Nietzsche]
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20253
|
Modern wars arise from the study of history
[Nietzsche]
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20254
|
People govern for the pleasure of it, or just to avoid being governed
[Nietzsche]
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20255
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Early 19th century German philosophers enjoyed concepts, rather than scientific explanations
[Nietzsche]
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20256
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What we think is totally dictated by the language available to express it
[Nietzsche]
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20257
|
Cool courage and feverish bravery have one name, but are two very different virtues
[Nietzsche]
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20258
|
Most people treat knowledge as a private possession
[Nietzsche]
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20259
|
Teach youth to respect people who differ with them, not people who agree with them
[Nietzsche]
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20260
|
Carlyle spent his life vainly trying to make reason appear romantic
[Nietzsche]
|
20261
|
History does not concern what really happened, but supposed events, which have all the influence
[Nietzsche]
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20262
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Don't use wisdom in order to become clever!
[Nietzsche]
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20263
|
Fear reveals the natures of other people much more clearly than love does
[Nietzsche]
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20264
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The easy and graceful aspects of a person are called 'soul', and inner awkwardness is called 'soulless'
[Nietzsche]
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20265
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The desire for a complete system requires making the weak parts look equal to the rest
[Nietzsche]
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20266
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It is essential that wise people learn to express their wisdom, possibly even as foolishness
[Nietzsche]
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20267
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Seeing duty as a burden makes it a bit cruel, and it can thus never become a habit
[Nietzsche]
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20268
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Most dying people have probably lost more important things than what they are about to lose
[Nietzsche]
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20269
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'I believe because it is absurd' - but how about 'I believe because I am absurd'
[Nietzsche]
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20270
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There is no one scientific method; we must try many approaches, and many emotions
[Nietzsche]
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20271
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Beauty in art is the imitation of happiness
[Nietzsche]
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20272
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Honesty is a new young virtue, and we can promote it, or not
[Nietzsche]
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20273
|
The French Revolution gave trusting Europe the false delusion of instant recovery
[Nietzsche]
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20274
|
The cardinal virtues want us to be honest, brave, magnanimous and polite
[Nietzsche]
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20275
|
Most people think they are already complete, but we can cultivate ourselves
[Nietzsche]
|
20131
|
We can cultivate our drives, of anger, pity, curiosity, vanity, like a gardener, with good or bad taste
[Nietzsche]
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2887
|
I am not an atheist because of reasoning or evidence, but because of instinct
[Nietzsche]
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2886
|
The distinction between egoistic and non-egoistic acts is absurd
[Nietzsche]
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4426
|
A bad result distorts one's judgement about the virtue of what one has done
[Nietzsche]
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2889
|
One repays a teacher badly if one remains only a pupil
[Nietzsche]
|
20132
|
To become what you are you must have no self-awareness
[Nietzsche]
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4425
|
The overcoming of pity I count among the noble virtues
[Nietzsche]
|
4424
|
A warlike philosopher challenges problems to single combat
[Nietzsche]
|
20144
|
Eternal recurrence is the highest attainable affirmation
[Nietzsche]
|
24084
|
Seeing with other eyes is more egoism, but exploring other perspectives leads to objectivity
[Nietzsche]
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24085
|
For absolute morality a goal for mankind is needed
[Nietzsche]
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24086
|
The goal is to settle human beings, like other animals, but humans are still changeable
[Nietzsche]
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24087
|
People who miss beauty seek the sublime, where even the ugly shows its 'beauty'
[Nietzsche]
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24088
|
See our present lives as eternal! Religions see it as fleeting, and aim at some different life
[Nietzsche]
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24089
|
Essences are fictions needed for beings who represent things
[Nietzsche]
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24090
|
Our inclinations would not conflict if we were a unity; we imagine unity for our multiplicity
[Nietzsche]
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24091
|
The sublimity of nature which dwarfs us was a human creation
[Nietzsche]
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24092
|
I tell the truth, even if it is repulsive
[Nietzsche]
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24093
|
We can aspire to greatness by creating new functions for ourselves
[Nietzsche]
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24094
|
Humans are vividly aware of short-term effects, and almost ignorant of the long-term ones
[Nietzsche]
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24095
|
Our growth is too subtle to perceive, and long events are too slow for us to grasp
[Nietzsche]
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24124
|
We now have innumerable perspectives to draw on
[Nietzsche]
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24125
|
Aristotle enjoyed the sham generalities of a system, as the peak of happiness!
[Nietzsche]
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24126
|
We contain multitudes of characters, which can brought into the open
[Nietzsche]
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24127
|
Judging actions by intentions - like judging painters by their thoughts!
[Nietzsche]
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24128
|
After history following God, or a people, or an idea, we now see it in terms of animals
[Nietzsche]
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24129
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We start with images, then words, and then concepts, to which emotions attach
[Nietzsche]
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24130
|
An affirmative belief is present in every basic sense impression
[Nietzsche]
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24131
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There is no 'being'; it is just the opposition to nothingness
[Nietzsche]
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24132
|
After Socrates virtue is misunderstood, as good for all, not for individuals
[Nietzsche]
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24133
|
I have perfected fatalism, as recurrence and denial of the will
[Nietzsche]
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24134
|
There is always slavery, whether we like it or not
[Nietzsche]
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24135
|
Egoism should not assume that all egos are equal
[Nietzsche]
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24136
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Who can endure the thought of eternal recurrence?
[Nietzsche]
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24138
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Strongly believed a priori is not certain; it may just be a feature of our existence
[Nietzsche]
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24137
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Mathematics is just accurate inferences from definitions, and doesn't involve objects
[Nietzsche]
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24139
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A 'person' is just one possible abstraction from a bundle of qualities
[Nietzsche]
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24140
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Cause and effect is a hypothesis, based on our supposed willing of actions
[Nietzsche]
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24141
|
Having a sense of time presupposes absolute time
[Nietzsche]
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24142
|
What matters is how humans can be developed
[Nietzsche]
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24143
|
Thinkers might agree some provisional truths, as methodological assumptions
[Nietzsche]
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24144
|
A cognitive mechanism wanting to know itself is absurd!
[Nietzsche]
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24145
|
Mind is a mechanism of abstraction and simplification, aimed at control
[Nietzsche]
|
24146
|
All the major problems were formulated before Socrates
[Nietzsche]
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24147
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Thoughts are uncertain, and are just occasions for interpretation
[Nietzsche]
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24148
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If you love something, it is connected with everything, so all must be affirmed as good
[Nietzsche]
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24149
|
Values need a perspective, of preserving some aspect of life
[Nietzsche]
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24150
|
We can only understand through concepts, which subsume particulars in generalities
[Nietzsche]
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24151
|
I only want thinking that is anchored in body, senses and earth
[Nietzsche]
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24152
|
Fate is inspiring, if you understand you are part of it
[Nietzsche]
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24153
|
Humans are determined by community, so its preservation is their most valued drive
[Nietzsche]
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24154
|
If you want one experience repeated, you must want all of them
[Nietzsche]
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23208
|
Caesar and Napoleon point to the future, when they pursue their task regardless of human sacrifice
[Nietzsche]
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23209
|
Each of our personal drives has its own perspective
[Nietzsche]
|
23210
|
That all events are necessary does not mean they are compelled
[Nietzsche]
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23211
|
Events are just interpretations of groups of appearances
[Nietzsche]
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23212
|
A text has many interpretations, but no 'correct' one
[Nietzsche]
|
23213
|
The greatest drive of life is to discharge strength, rather than preservation
[Nietzsche]
|
23214
|
For the strongest people, nihilism gives you wings!
[Nietzsche]
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23183
|
Different abilities are needed for living in an incomplete and undogmatic system
[Nietzsche]
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23184
|
The mind is a simplifying apparatus
[Nietzsche]
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23186
|
Numbers enable us to manage the world - to the limits of counting
[Nietzsche]
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23187
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Whatever their origin, concepts survive by being useful
[Nietzsche]
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23188
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Bad writers use shapeless floating splotches of concepts
[Nietzsche]
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23189
|
Concepts are rough groups of simultaneous sensations
[Nietzsche]
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23190
|
Consciousness is our awareness of our own mental life
[Nietzsche]
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23192
|
Concepts don’t match one thing, but many things a little bit
[Nietzsche]
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23191
|
Minds have an excluding drive to scare things off, and a selecting one to filter facts
[Nietzsche]
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23193
|
Napoleon was very focused, and rightly ignored compassion
[Nietzsche]
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23194
|
People feel united as a nation by one language, but then want a common ancestry and history
[Nietzsche]
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23195
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Laws of nature are actually formulas of power relations
[Nietzsche]
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23197
|
Memory is essential, and is only possible by means of abbreviation signs
[Nietzsche]
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23196
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Logic is a fiction, which invents the view that one thought causes another
[Nietzsche]
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23185
|
In chemistry every substance pushes, and thus creates new substances
[Nietzsche]
|
23198
|
Aesthetics can be more basic than morality, in our pleasure in certain patterns of experience
[Nietzsche]
|
23199
|
What is the search for truth if it isn't moral?
[Nietzsche]
|
23200
|
The controlling morality of aristocracy is the desire to resemble their ancestors
[Nietzsche]
|
23202
|
Like all philosophers, I love truth
[Nietzsche]
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23203
|
The great question is approaching, of how to govern the earth as a whole
[Nietzsche]
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23204
|
To be someone you need property, and wanting more is healthy
[Nietzsche]
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23205
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Thought starts as ambiguity, in need of interpretation and narrowing
[Nietzsche]
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23206
|
Schematic minds think thoughts are truer if they slot into a scheme
[Nietzsche]
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23207
|
Appearance is the sole reality of things, to which all predicates refer
[Nietzsche]
|
6579
|
Nietzsche's perspectivism says our worldview depends on our personality
[Nietzsche, by Fogelin]
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4275
|
You cannot advocate joyful wisdom while rejecting pity, because the two are complementary
[Scruton on Nietzsche]
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20125
|
The ethical teacher exists to give purpose to what happens necessarily and without purpose
[Nietzsche]
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20198
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Many virtues are harmful traps, but that is why other people praise them
[Nietzsche]
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9306
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To ward off boredom at any cost is vulgar
[Nietzsche]
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20126
|
The strength of knowledge is not its truth, but its entrenchment in our culture
[Nietzsche]
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24076
|
A morality ranks human drives and actions, for the sake of the herd, and subordinating individuals
[Nietzsche]
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4423
|
We assume causes, geometry, motion, bodies etc to live, but they haven't been proved
[Nietzsche]
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2931
|
God is dead, and we have killed him
[Nietzsche]
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24077
|
Necessity is thought to require an event, but is only an after-effect of the event
[Nietzsche]
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24078
|
Thoughts cannot be fully reproduced in words
[Nietzsche]
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24079
|
The best life is the dangerous life
[Nietzsche]
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24080
|
We should give style to our character - by applying an artistic plan to its strengths and weaknesses
[Nietzsche]
|
20141
|
Higher human beings see and hear far more than others, and do it more thoughtfully
[Nietzsche]
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24081
|
Most of our intellectual activity is unconscious
[Nietzsche]
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2932
|
'Know thyself' is impossible and ridiculous
[Nietzsche]
|
2935
|
No two actions are the same
[Nietzsche]
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2933
|
Why do you listen to the voice of your conscience?
[Nietzsche]
|
2934
|
To see one's own judgement as a universal law is selfish
[Nietzsche]
|
2936
|
Imagine if before each of your actions you had to accept repeating the action over and over again
[Nietzsche]
|
6842
|
Nietzsche says facing up to the eternal return of meaninglessness is the response to nihilism
[Nietzsche, by Critchley]
|
24082
|
Is the will to truth the desire to avoid deception?
[Nietzsche]
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22471
|
Nietzsche thought it 'childish' to say morality isn't binding because it varies between cultures
[Nietzsche, by Foot]
|
20121
|
Grammar only reveals popular metaphysics
[Nietzsche]
|
20122
|
We have no organ for knowledge or truth; we only 'know' what is useful to the human herd
[Nietzsche]
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20119
|
We became increasingly conscious of our sense impressions in order to communicate them
[Nietzsche]
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20116
|
Most of our lives, even the important parts, take place outside of consciousness
[Nietzsche]
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20120
|
Whatever moves into consciousness becomes thereby much more superficial
[Nietzsche]
|
20118
|
Only our conscious thought is verbal, and this shows the origin of consciousness
[Nietzsche]
|
20115
|
All of our normal mental life could be conducted without consciousness
[Nietzsche]
|
20117
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Only the need for communication has led to consciousness developing
[Nietzsche]
|
20360
|
We Germans value becoming and development more highly than mere being of what 'is'
[Nietzsche]
|
24083
|
It would be absurd to say we are only permitted our own single perspective
[Nietzsche]
|
3793
|
We must question the very value of moral values
[Nietzsche]
|
4407
|
Plato, Spinoza and Kant are very different, but united in their low estimation of pity
[Nietzsche]
|
3259
|
Nietzsche rejects impersonal morality, and asserts the idea of living well
[Nietzsche, by Nagel]
|
23715
|
Psychologists should be brave and proud, and prefer truth to desires, even when it is ugly
[Nietzsche]
|
4409
|
Only the decline of aristocratic morality led to concerns about "egoism"
[Nietzsche]
|
4408
|
The concept of 'good' was created by aristocrats to describe their own actions
[Nietzsche]
|
4410
|
The truly great haters in world history have always been priests
[Nietzsche]
|
23716
|
A strong rounded person soon forgets enemies, misfortunes, and even misdeeds
[Nietzsche]
|
23717
|
Modern nihilism is now feeling tired of mankind
[Nietzsche]
|
23718
|
If we say birds of prey could become lambs, that makes them responsible for being birds of prey
[Nietzsche]
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4411
|
It is a delusion to separate the man from the deed, like the flash from the lightning
[Nietzsche]
|
2930
|
The main aim of philosophy must be to determine the order of rank among values
[Nietzsche]
|
23719
|
Forgetfulness is a strong positive ability, not mental laziness
[Nietzsche]
|
4414
|
Philosophers invented "free will" so that our virtues would be permanently interesting to the gods
[Nietzsche]
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4416
|
Basic justice is the negotiation of agreement among equals, and the imposition of agreement
[Nietzsche]
|
4415
|
Guilt and obligation originated in the relationship of buying and selling, credit and debt
[Nietzsche]
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4417
|
Only that which has no history is definable
[Nietzsche]
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23720
|
Punishment makes people harder, more alienated, and hostile
[Nietzsche]
|
20142
|
The state begins with brutal conquest of a disorganised people, not with a 'contract'
[Nietzsche]
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4418
|
A masterful and violent person need have nothing to do with contracts
[Nietzsche]
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23721
|
Old tribes always felt an obligation to the earlier generations, and the founders
[Nietzsche]
|
20129
|
All animals strive for the ideal conditions to express their power, and hate any hindrances
[Nietzsche]
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4419
|
People who think in words are orators rather than thinkers, and think about facts instead of thinking facts
[Nietzsche]
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4420
|
There is only 'perspective' seeing and knowing, and so the best objectivity is multiple points of view
[Nietzsche]
|
23722
|
Objectivity is not disinterestedness (impossible), but the ability to switch perspectives
[Nietzsche]
|
20143
|
Scientific knowledge is nothing without a prior philosophical 'faith'
[Nietzsche]
|
4421
|
Philosophers have never asked why there is a will to truth in the first place
[Nietzsche]
|
20103
|
You are mastered by your own virtues, but you must master them, and turn them into tools
[Nietzsche]
|
20111
|
We could live more naturally, relishing the spectacle, and not thinking we are special
[Nietzsche]
|
14807
|
The history of morality rests on an error called 'responsibility', which rests on an error called 'free will'
[Nietzsche]
|
14808
|
Over huge periods of time human character would change endlessly
[Nietzsche]
|
14809
|
All societies of good men give a priority to gratitude
[Nietzsche]
|
14810
|
Originally it was the rulers who requited good for good and evil for evil who were called 'good'
[Nietzsche]
|
14811
|
In Homer it is the contemptible person, not the harmful person, who is bad
[Nietzsche]
|
20112
|
Pity consoles those who suffer, because they see that they still have the power to hurt
[Nietzsche]
|
14812
|
Intellect is tied to morality, because it requires good memory and powerful imagination
[Nietzsche]
|
14813
|
Science rejecting the teaching of Christianity in favour of Epicurus shows the superiority of the latter
[Nietzsche]
|
14814
|
Execution is worse than murder, because we are using the victim, and really we are the guilty
[Nietzsche]
|
20378
|
Just as skin hides the horrors of the body, vanity conceals the passions of the soul
[Nietzsche]
|
14815
|
We get enormous pleasure from tales of noble actions
[Nietzsche]
|
14816
|
Justice (fairness) originates among roughly equal powers (as the Melian dialogues show)
[Nietzsche]
|
14817
|
The 'good' man does the moral thing as if by nature, easily and gladly, after a long inheritance
[Nietzsche]
|
14818
|
First morality is force, then custom, then acceptance, then instinct, then a pleasure - and finally 'virtue'
[Nietzsche]
|
14819
|
Slavery cannot be judged by our standards, because the sense of justice was then less developed
[Nietzsche]
|
14820
|
People always do what they think is right, according to the degree of their intellect
[Nietzsche]
|
14821
|
Apart from philosophers, most people rightly have a low estimate of pity
[Nietzsche]
|
14822
|
If self-defence is moral, then so are most expressions of 'immoral' egoism
[Nietzsche]
|
14823
|
Ceasing to believe in human responsibility is bitter, if you had based the nobility of humanity on it
[Nietzsche]
|
14824
|
It is absurd to blame nature and necessity; we should no more praise actions than we praise plants or artworks
[Nietzsche]
|
22473
|
Nietzsche said the will doesn't exist, so it can't ground moral responsibility
[Nietzsche, by Foot]
|
14825
|
In religious thought nature is a complex of arbitrary acts by conscious beings
[Nietzsche]
|
14826
|
Modern man wants laws of nature in order to submit to them
[Nietzsche]
|
14827
|
The Greeks saw the gods not as their masters, but as idealised versions of themselves
[Nietzsche]
|
14828
|
Religion is tempting if your life is boring, but you can't therefore impose it on the busy people
[Nietzsche]
|
14830
|
Intuition only recognises what is possible, not what exists or is certain
[Nietzsche]
|
14831
|
No one has ever done anything that was entirely for other people
[Nietzsche]
|
14832
|
The Sermon on the Mount is vanity - praying to one part of oneself, and demonising the rest
[Nietzsche]
|
14833
|
Comedy is a transition from fear to exuberance
[Nietzsche]
|
14834
|
Teachers only gather knowledge for their pupils, and can't be serious about themselves
[Nietzsche]
|
14835
|
Artists are not especially passionate, but they pretend to be
[Nietzsche]
|
14836
|
People will enthusiastically pursue an unwanted war, once sacrifices have been made
[Nietzsche]
|
14838
|
The state aims to protect individuals from one another
[Nietzsche]
|
14837
|
Christ seems warm hearted, and suppressed intellect in favour of the intellectually weak
[Nietzsche]
|
14839
|
Interest in education gains strength when we lose interest in God
[Nietzsche]
|
14841
|
Many people are better at having good friends than being a good friend
[Nietzsche]
|
14842
|
Why are the strong tastes of other people so contagious?
[Nietzsche]
|
14843
|
Women can be friends with men, but only some physical antipathy will maintain it
[Nietzsche]
|
14844
|
People do not experience boredom if they have never learned to work properly
[Nietzsche]
|
14845
|
Don't crush girls with dull Gymnasium education, the way we have crushed boys!
[Nietzsche]
|
14846
|
If we want the good life for the greatest number, we must let them decide on the good life
[Nietzsche]
|
14847
|
Laws that are well thought out, or laws that are easy to understand?
[Nietzsche]
|
14848
|
Education in large states is mediocre, like cooking in large kitchens
[Nietzsche]
|
14849
|
We can only achieve happy moments, not happy eras
[Nietzsche]
|
14850
|
Christ was the noblest human being
[Nietzsche]
|
14852
|
Culture cannot do without passions and vices
[Nietzsche]
|
24075
|
Convictions, more than lies, are the great enemy of truth
[Nietzsche]
|
14853
|
Truth finds fewest champions not when it is dangerous, but when it is boring
[Nietzsche]
|
14854
|
Deep thinkers know that they are always wrong
[Nietzsche]
|
14855
|
Simultaneous love and respect are impossible; love has no separation or rank, but respect admits power
[Nietzsche]
|
14856
|
Our judgment seems to cause our nature, but actually judgment arises from our nature
[Nietzsche]
|
14857
|
The highest wisdom has the guise of simplicity
[Nietzsche]
|
14858
|
Being certain presumes that there are absolute truths, and means of arriving at them
[Nietzsche]
|
7149
|
Comprehending everything is impossible, because it abolishes perspectives
[Nietzsche]
|
7147
|
Values are innate and inherited
[Nietzsche]
|
7148
|
The 'I' is a conceptual synthesis, not the governor of our being
[Nietzsche]
|
7157
|
We think each thought causes the next, unaware of the hidden struggle beneath
[Nietzsche]
|
7158
|
Morality kills religion, because a Christian-moral God is unbelievable
[Nietzsche]
|
7159
|
The only happiness is happiness with illusion
[Nietzsche]
|
7151
|
Courage, compassion, insight, solitude are the virtues, with courtesy a necessary vice
[Nietzsche]
|
7150
|
By developing herd virtues man fixes what has up to now been the 'unfixed animal'
[Nietzsche]
|
7160
|
Christian belief is kept alive because it is soothing - the proof based on pleasure
[Nietzsche]
|
7161
|
The essence of a thing is only an opinion about the 'thing'
[Nietzsche]
|
7163
|
Morality is merely interpretations, which are extra-moral in origin
[Nietzsche]
|
7164
|
Not feeling harnessed to a system of 'ends' is a wonderful feeling of freedom
[Nietzsche]
|
7152
|
With protoplasm ½+½=2, so the soul is not an indivisible monad
[Nietzsche]
|
7154
|
We can't use our own self to criticise our own capacity for knowledge!
[Nietzsche]
|
7153
|
We can't be realists, because we don't know what being is
[Nietzsche]
|
7155
|
Consciousness exists to the extent that consciousness is useful
[Nietzsche]
|
7156
|
Sense perceptions contain values (useful, so pleasant)
[Nietzsche]
|
7165
|
Virtue is wasteful, as it reduces us all to being one another's nurse
[Nietzsche]
|
7166
|
Man is above all a judging animal
[Nietzsche]
|
7169
|
Is the perspectival part of the essence, or just a relation between beings?
[Nietzsche]
|
7170
|
'Wisdom' attempts to get beyond perspectives, making it hostile to life
[Nietzsche]
|
7171
|
Rationality is a scheme we cannot cast away
[Nietzsche]
|
7167
|
Words such as 'I' and 'do' and 'done to' are placed at the point where our ignorance begins
[Nietzsche]
|
7168
|
Modest people express happiness as 'Not bad'
[Nietzsche]
|
7172
|
Existence without meaning or goal or end, eternally recurring, is a terrible thought
[Nietzsche]
|
7173
|
Rights arise out of contracts, which need a balance of power
[Nietzsche]
|
7174
|
Categories are not metaphysical truths, but inventions in the service of needs
[Nietzsche]
|
7175
|
Philosophers find it particularly hard to shake off belief in necessary categories
[Nietzsche]
|
7176
|
'Purpose' is like the sun, where most heat is wasted, and a tiny part has 'purpose'
[Nietzsche]
|
7180
|
Darwin overestimates the influence of 'external circumstances'
[Nietzsche]
|
7179
|
Survival might undermine an individual's value, or prevent its evolution
[Nietzsche]
|
7178
|
The utility of an organ does not explain its origin, on the contrary!
[Nietzsche]
|
7181
|
Pain shows the value of the damage, not what has been damaged
[Nietzsche]
|
7177
|
Virtues from outside are dangerous, and they should come from within
[Nietzsche]
|
7182
|
'Perspectivism': the world has no meaning, but various interpretations give it countless meanings
[Nietzsche]
|
7183
|
'Subjectivity' is an interpretation, since subjects (and interpreters) are fictions
[Nietzsche]
|
7189
|
Maybe there are only subjects, and 'objects' result from relations between subjects
[Nietzsche]
|
7185
|
Replace the categorical imperative by the natural imperative
[Nietzsche]
|
7186
|
There are no necessary truths, but something must be held to be true
[Nietzsche]
|
7188
|
Logic tries to understand the world according to a man-made scheme
[Nietzsche]
|
7193
|
Virtue for everyone removes its charm of being exceptional and aristocratic
[Nietzsche]
|
7194
|
Experiencing a thing as beautiful is to experience it wrongly
[Nietzsche]
|
7190
|
Our values express an earlier era's conditions for survival and growth
[Nietzsche]
|
7191
|
What does not kill us makes us stronger
[Nietzsche]
|
7192
|
Remove goodness and wisdom from our concept of God. Being the highest power is enough!
[Nietzsche]
|
7199
|
It is dishonest to invent a being containing our greatest values, thus ignoring why they exist and are valuable
[Nietzsche]
|
7201
|
Knowledge, wisdom and goodness only have value relative to a goal
[Nietzsche]
|
7200
|
A combination of great power and goodness would mean the disastrous abolition of evil
[Nietzsche]
|
7203
|
In heaven all the interesting men are missing
[Nietzsche]
|
7204
|
The upholding of the military state is needed to maintain the strong human type
[Nietzsche]
|
7195
|
If the world aimed at an end, it would have reached it by now
[Nietzsche]
|
7196
|
Pessimism is laughable, because the world cannot be evaluated
[Nietzsche]
|
7197
|
Pleasure needs dissatisfaction, boundaries and resistances
[Nietzsche]
|
7198
|
Nihilism results from measuring the world by our categories which are purely invented
[Nietzsche]
|
7209
|
There is no will; weakness of will is splitting of impulses, strong will is coordination under one impulse
[Nietzsche]
|
7205
|
Altruism is praised by the egoism of the weak, who want everyone to be looked after
[Nietzsche]
|
7206
|
Things are strong or weak, and do not behave regularly or according to rules or compulsions
[Nietzsche]
|
7207
|
Counting needs unities, but that doesn't mean they exist; we borrowed it from the concept of 'I'
[Nietzsche]
|
7208
|
Paganism is a form of thanking and affirming life?
[Nietzsche]
|
7132
|
Philosophers should create and fight for their concepts, not just clean and clarify them
[Nietzsche]
|
7133
|
It is tempting to think many eyes means many truths - so not truth
[Nietzsche]
|
7134
|
Something can be irrefutable; that doesn't make it true
[Nietzsche]
|
7135
|
'Freedom of will' is the feeling of having a dominating force
[Nietzsche]
|
7136
|
Morality is a system of values which accompanies a being's life
[Nietzsche]
|
7129
|
Perception is unconscious, and we are only conscious of processed perceptions
[Nietzsche]
|
7130
|
Unity is not in the conscious 'I', but in the organism, which uses the self as a tool
[Nietzsche]
|
7131
|
The intellect and senses are a simplifying apparatus
[Nietzsche]
|
7137
|
Is a 'philosopher' now impossible, because knowledge is too vast for an overview?
[Nietzsche]
|
7138
|
The 'I' is a fiction used to make the world of becoming 'knowable'
[Nietzsche]
|
7139
|
Explanation is just showing the succession of things ever more clearly
[Nietzsche]
|
7140
|
Chemical 'laws' are merely the establishment of power relations between weaker and stronger
[Nietzsche]
|
7141
|
A living being is totally 'egoistic'
[Nietzsche]
|
7142
|
All motions and 'laws' are symptoms of inner events, traceable to the will to power
[Nietzsche]
|
7143
|
Consciousness is a 'tool' - just as the stomach is a tool
[Nietzsche]
|
7145
|
Logic is not driven by truth, but desire for a simple single viewpoint
[Nietzsche]
|
7144
|
Logic must falsely assume that identical cases exist
[Nietzsche]
|
7146
|
Belief in the body is better established than belief in the mind
[Nietzsche]
|
20363
|
Leaves are unequal, but we form the concept 'leaf' by discarding their individual differences
[Nietzsche]
|
20130
|
It is absurd to think you can change your own essence, like a garment
[Nietzsche]
|
7848
|
Philosophy begins in the horror and absurdity of existence
[Nietzsche, by Ansell Pearson]
|
15606
|
Military idea: what does not kill me makes me stronger
[Nietzsche]
|
2891
|
Only the English actually strive after happiness
[Nietzsche]
|
2892
|
Wanting a system in philosophy is a lack of integrity
[Nietzsche]
|
20101
|
Without music life would be a mistake
[Nietzsche]
|
2893
|
In every age the wisest people have judged life to be worthless
[Nietzsche]
|
2894
|
Value judgements about life can never be true
[Nietzsche]
|
18308
|
A philosopher fails in wisdom if he thinks the value of life is a problem
[Nietzsche]
|
2895
|
The value of life cannot be estimated
[Nietzsche]
|
2896
|
I want to understand the Socratic idea that 'reason equals virtue equals happiness'
[Nietzsche]
|
2898
|
Anything which must first be proved is of little value
[Nietzsche]
|
2897
|
With dialectics the rabble gets on top
[Nietzsche]
|
2899
|
The fanatical rationality of Greek philosophy shows that they were in a state of emergency
[Nietzsche]
|
18309
|
The evidence of the senses is falsified by reason
[Nietzsche]
|
2900
|
I revere Heraclitus
[Nietzsche]
|
18310
|
The 'highest' concepts are the most general and empty concepts
[Nietzsche]
|
18311
|
Philosophers hate values having an origin, and want values to be self-sufficient
[Nietzsche]
|
18312
|
The supreme general but empty concepts must be compatible, and hence we get 'God'
[Nietzsche]
|
18313
|
The big error is to think the will is a faculty producing effects; in fact, it is just a word
[Nietzsche]
|
18315
|
We get the concept of 'being' from the concept of the 'ego'
[Nietzsche]
|
18314
|
In language we treat 'ego' as a substance, and it is thus that we create the concept 'thing'
[Nietzsche]
|
18316
|
The grounds for an assertion that the world is only apparent actually establish its reality
[Nietzsche]
|
18317
|
The 'real being' of things is a nothingness constructed from contradictions in the actual world
[Nietzsche]
|
18318
|
People who disparage actual life avenge themselves by imagining a better one
[Nietzsche]
|
2901
|
How could the Church intelligently fight against passion if it preferred poorness of spirit to intelligence?
[Nietzsche]
|
18320
|
To renounce war is to renounce the grand life
[Nietzsche]
|
18319
|
Love is the spiritualisation of sensuality
[Nietzsche]
|
2902
|
Healthy morality is dominated by an instinct for life
[Nietzsche]
|
18322
|
When we establish values, that is life itself establishing them, through us
[Nietzsche]
|
18321
|
To evaluate life one must know it, but also be situated outside of it
[Nietzsche]
|
2903
|
A good human will be virtuous because they are happy
[Nietzsche]
|
18323
|
Any explanation will be accepted as true if it gives pleasure and a feeling of power
[Nietzsche]
|
2904
|
The doctrine of free will has been invented essentially in order to blame and punish people
[Nietzsche]
|
2906
|
By denying God we deny human accountability, and thus we redeem the world
[Nietzsche]
|
2905
|
'Purpose' is just a human fiction
[Nietzsche]
|
18324
|
There are no moral facts, and moralists believe in realities which do not exist
[Nietzsche]
|
20133
|
The 'motive' is superficial, and may even hide the antecedents of a deed
[Nietzsche]
|
2908
|
There is a need for educators who are themselves educated
[Nietzsche]
|
2909
|
Thinking has to be learned in the way dancing has to be learned
[Nietzsche]
|
18325
|
Christians believe that only God can know what is good for man
[Nietzsche]
|
18326
|
The beautiful never stands alone; it derives from man's pleasure in man
[Nietzsche]
|
20368
|
There are no 'individual' persons; we are each the sum of humanity up to this moment
[Nietzsche]
|
18327
|
A wholly altruistic morality, with no egoism, is a thoroughly bad thing
[Nietzsche]
|
18328
|
Invalids are parasites
[Nietzsche]
|
18329
|
Sometimes it is an error to have been born - but we can rectify it
[Nietzsche]
|
18330
|
Judging by the positive forces, the Renaissance was the last great age
[Nietzsche]
|
18331
|
Democracy is organisational power in decline
[Nietzsche]
|
18332
|
The creation of institutions needs a determination which is necessarily anti-liberal
[Nietzsche]
|
2911
|
True justice is equality for equals and inequality for unequals
[Nietzsche]
|
2913
|
Thucydides was the perfect anti-platonist sophist
[Nietzsche]
|
14859
|
If philosophy controls science, then it has to determine its scope, and its value
[Nietzsche]
|
14860
|
Kant has undermined our belief in metaphysics
[Nietzsche]
|
14861
|
Philosophy ennobles the world, by producing an artistic conception of our knowledge
[Nietzsche]
|
14862
|
Philosophy is more valuable than much of science, because of its beauty
[Nietzsche]
|
14863
|
Unlike science, true wisdom involves good taste
[Nietzsche]
|
14864
|
The Greeks lack a normative theology: each person has their own poetic view of things
[Nietzsche]
|
14865
|
We do not know the nature of one single causality
[Nietzsche]
|
14866
|
It always remains possible that the world just is the way it appears
[Nietzsche]
|
14867
|
It is just madness to think that the mind is supernatural (or even divine!)
[Nietzsche]
|
14868
|
Our primary faculty is perception of structure, as when looking in a mirror
[Nietzsche]
|
14869
|
If some sort of experience is at the root of matter, then human knowledge is close to its essence
[Nietzsche]
|
14870
|
We experience causation between willing and acting, and thereby explain conjunctions of changes
[Nietzsche]
|
14871
|
Laws of nature are merely complex networks of relations
[Nietzsche]
|
14872
|
Our knowledge is illogical, because it rests on false identities between things
[Nietzsche]
|
14873
|
If we find a hypothesis that explains many things, we conclude that it explains everything
[Nietzsche]
|
14875
|
Belief matters more than knowledge, and only begins when knowledge ceases
[Nietzsche]
|
14876
|
Philosophy is always secondary, because it cannot support a popular culture
[Nietzsche]
|
14878
|
It would better if there was no thought
[Nietzsche]
|
14880
|
Logic is just slavery to language
[Nietzsche]
|
14879
|
The most extreme scepticism is when you even give up logic
[Nietzsche]
|
14881
|
Why do people want philosophers?
[Nietzsche]
|
14882
|
Protest against vivisection - living things should not become objects of scientific investigation
[Nietzsche]
|
14883
|
We should evaluate the past morally
[Nietzsche]
|
14884
|
The shortest path to happiness is forgetfulness, the path of animals (but of little value)
[Nietzsche]
|
14885
|
The first aim of a philosopher is a life, not some works
[Nietzsche]
|
14886
|
Education is contrary to human nature
[Nietzsche]
|
14887
|
You should only develop a philosophy if you are willing to live by it
[Nietzsche]
|
14888
|
Wisdom prevents us from being ruled by the moment
[Nietzsche]
|
14889
|
Philosophy is pointless if it does not advocate, and live, a new way of life
[Nietzsche]
|
14890
|
Suffering is the meaning of existence
[Nietzsche]
|
24096
|
Unlike time, space is subjective. Empty space was assumed, but it doesn't exist
[Nietzsche]
|
24115
|
There is no proof that we forget things - only that we can't recall
[Nietzsche]
|
24116
|
Justice says people are not equal, and should become increasingly unequal
[Nietzsche]
|
24117
|
We need lower and higher drives, but they must be under firm control
[Nietzsche]
|
24118
|
Do away with punishment. Counter-retribution is as bad as the crime
[Nietzsche]
|
24119
|
The eternal return of wastefulness is a terrible thought
[Nietzsche]
|
24120
|
Great orators lead their arguments, rather than following them
[Nietzsche]
|
24122
|
Life is forces conjoined by nutrition, to produce resistance, arrangement and value
[Nietzsche]
|
24123
|
My eternal recurrence is opposed to feeling fragmented and imperfect
[Nietzsche]
|
24097
|
The pragmatics of language is more comprehensible than the meaning
[Nietzsche]
|
24098
|
Reasons that justify punishment can also justify the crime
[Nietzsche]
|
24121
|
Greeks might see modern analysis of what is human as impious
[Nietzsche]
|
24099
|
We contain many minds, which fight for the 'I' of the mind
[Nietzsche]
|
24100
|
If you don't want war, remove your borders; but you set up borders because you want war
[Nietzsche]
|
24101
|
We always assign values, but we may not value those values
[Nietzsche]
|
24102
|
Thoughts are signs (just as words are)
[Nietzsche]
|
24103
|
You should not want too many virtues; one is enough
[Nietzsche]
|
24104
|
We don't create logic, time and space! The mind obeys laws because they are true
[Nietzsche]
|
24105
|
Drives make us feel non-feelings; Will is the effect of those feelings
[Nietzsche]
|
24106
|
Talk of 'utility' presupposes that what is useful to people has been defined
[Nietzsche]
|
24107
|
Once a drive controls the intellect, it rules, and sets the goals
[Nietzsche]
|
24108
|
Actions are just a release of force. They seize on something, which becomes the purpose
[Nietzsche]
|
24109
|
Actual morality is more complicated and subtle than theory (which gets paralysed)
[Nietzsche]
|
24110
|
Some things we would never do, even for the highest ideals
[Nietzsche]
|
24111
|
Happiness is the active equilibrium of our drives
[Nietzsche]
|
24112
|
To think about being we must have an opinion about what it is
[Nietzsche]
|
24113
|
Our motives don't explain our actions
[Nietzsche]
|
24114
|
The pain in truth is when it destroys a belief
[Nietzsche]
|
4422
|
The end need not be the goal, as in the playing of a melody (and yet it must be completed)
[Nietzsche]
|
5652
|
True beliefs are those which augment one's power
[Nietzsche, by Scruton]
|
4485
|
Every belief is a considering-something-true
[Nietzsche]
|
4486
|
The extreme view is there are only perspectives, no true beliefs, because there is no true world
[Nietzsche]
|
4487
|
A note for asses: What convinces is not necessarily true - it is merely convincing
[Nietzsche]
|
4488
|
Those who have abandoned God cling that much more firmly to the faith in morality
[Nietzsche]
|
4489
|
If faith is lost, people seek other authorities, in order to avoid the risk of willing personal goals
[Nietzsche]
|
4491
|
In modern society virtue is 'equal rights', but only because everyone is zero, so it is a sum of zeroes
[Nietzsche]
|
4493
|
Be natural! But how, if one happens to be "unnatural"?
[Nietzsche]
|
20357
|
Truth was given value by morality, but eventually turned against its own source
[Nietzsche]
|
4494
|
Not "return to nature", for there has never yet been a natural humanity
[Nietzsche]
|
4495
|
The high points of culture and civilization do not coincide
[Nietzsche]
|
4497
|
The concept of 'God' represents a turning away from life, and a critique of life
[Nietzsche]
|
4496
|
'Conscience' is invented to value actions by intention and conformity to 'law', rather than consequences
[Nietzsche]
|
4498
|
'Love your enemy' is unnatural, for the natural law says 'love your neighbour and hate your enemy'
[Nietzsche]
|
4499
|
Primitive Christianity is abolition of the state; it is opposed to defence, justice, patriotism and class
[Nietzsche]
|
4500
|
It is a sign of degeneration when eudaimonistic values begin to prevail
[Nietzsche]
|
20359
|
The nature of being, of things, is much easier to understand than is becoming
[Nietzsche]
|
4502
|
Morality cannot survive when the God who sanctions it is missing
[Nietzsche]
|
4501
|
Utilitarianism criticises the origins of morality, but still believes in it as much as Christians
[Nietzsche]
|
20370
|
All evaluation is from some perspective, and aims at survival
[Nietzsche]
|
20383
|
The wisest man is full of contradictions, and attuned to other people, with occasional harmony
[Nietzsche]
|
4504
|
Morality used to be for preservation, but now we can only experiment, giving ourselves moral goals
[Nietzsche]
|
4505
|
How can it be that I should prefer my neighbour to myself, but he should prefer me to himself?
[Nietzsche]
|
4506
|
There is a conspiracy (a will to power) to make morality dominate other values, like knowledge and art
[Nietzsche]
|
4507
|
The categorical imperative needs either God behind it, or a metaphysic of the unity of reason
[Nietzsche]
|
4508
|
The truth is what gives us the minimum of spiritual effort, and avoids the exhaustion of lying
[Nietzsche]
|
20372
|
The instinct of the herd, the majority, aims for the mean, in the middle
[Nietzsche]
|
4509
|
Utilitarians prefer consequences because intentions are unknowable - but so are consequences!
[Nietzsche]
|
4510
|
A path to power: to introduce a new virtue under the name of an old one
[Nietzsche]
|
4511
|
We would avoid a person who always needed reasons for remaining decent
[Nietzsche]
|
4512
|
Virtue is pursued from self-interest and prudence, and reduces people to non-entities
[Nietzsche]
|
4513
|
Virtuous people are inferior because they are not 'persons', but conform to a fixed pattern
[Nietzsche]
|
4514
|
The basic tendency of the weak has always been to pull down the strong, using morality
[Nietzsche]
|
4515
|
Modesty, industriousness, benevolence and temperance are the virtues of a good slave
[Nietzsche]
|
4516
|
Many virtues are merely restraints on the most creative qualities of a human being
[Nietzsche]
|
4517
|
Egoism is inescapable, and when it grows weak, the power of love also grows weak
[Nietzsche]
|
4519
|
The ego is only a fiction, and doesn't exist at all
[Nietzsche]
|
23938
|
Passions are ranked, as if they are non-rational and animal pleasure seeking
[Nietzsche]
|
23939
|
We fail to see that reason is a network of passions, and every passion contains some reason
[Nietzsche]
|
4520
|
I don't want to persuade anyone to be a philosopher; they should be rare plants
[Nietzsche]
|
4521
|
None of the ancients had the courage to deny morality by denying free will
[Nietzsche]
|
4523
|
What can be 'demonstrated' is of little worth
[Nietzsche]
|
20374
|
Consciousness is a terminal phenomenon, and causes nothing
[Nietzsche]
|
4525
|
There are no facts in themselves, only interpretations
[Nietzsche]
|
4527
|
Perhaps we are not single subjects, but a multiplicity of 'cells', interacting to create thought
[Nietzsche]
|
4528
|
For me, a priori 'truths' are just provisional assumptions
[Nietzsche]
|
4530
|
Reason is a mere idiosyncrasy of a certain species of animal
[Nietzsche]
|
4531
|
Our inability to both affirm and deny a single thing is merely an inability, not a 'necessity'
[Nietzsche]
|
4533
|
Logic and maths refer to fictitious entities which we have created
[Nietzsche]
|
4532
|
We can have two opposite sensations, like hard and soft, at the same time
[Nietzsche]
|
4534
|
'Truth' is the will to be master over the multiplicity of sensations
[Nietzsche]
|
4535
|
A 'species' is a stable phase of evolution, implying the false notion that evolution has a goal
[Nietzsche]
|
4536
|
It is a major blunder to think of consciousness as a unity, and hence as an entity, a thing
[Nietzsche]
|
4539
|
The forms of 'knowledge' about logic which precede experience are actually regulations of belief
[Nietzsche]
|
4538
|
Judgements can't be true and known in isolation; the only surety is in connections and relations
[Nietzsche]
|
4537
|
We can't know whether there is knowledge if we don't know what it is
[Nietzsche]
|
4541
|
Everything simple is merely imaginary
[Nietzsche]
|
4542
|
Science has taken the meaning out of causation; cause and effect are two equal sides of an equation
[Nietzsche]
|
4543
|
There are no 'facts-in-themselves', since a sense must be projected into them to make them 'facts'
[Nietzsche]
|
4544
|
A thing has no properties if it has no effect on other 'things'
[Nietzsche]
|
4545
|
Could not the objective character of things be merely a difference of degree within the subjective?
[Nietzsche]
|
4546
|
We realise that properties are sensations of the feeling subject, not part of the thing
[Nietzsche]
|
4548
|
Only because there is thought is there untruth
[Nietzsche]
|
4551
|
Great self-examination is to become conscious of oneself not as an individual, but as mankind
[Nietzsche]
|
4550
|
Pleasure and pain are mere epiphenomena, and achievement requires that one desire both
[Nietzsche]
|
20362
|
We saw unity in things because our ego seemed unified (but now we doubt the ego!)
[Nietzsche]
|
4553
|
We derive the popular belief in cause and effect from our belief that our free will causes things
[Nietzsche]
|
4552
|
There is no such things a pure 'willing' on its own; the aim must always be part of it
[Nietzsche]
|
4554
|
The concept of the 'will' is just a false simplification by our understanding
[Nietzsche]
|
20354
|
The ruling drives of our culture all want to be the highest court of our values
[Nietzsche]
|
4555
|
The great error is to think that happiness derives from virtue, which in turn derives from free will
[Nietzsche]
|
4557
|
The supposed great lovers of honour (Alexander etc) were actually great despisers of honour
[Nietzsche]
|
4558
|
We have no more right to 'happiness' than worms
[Nietzsche]
|
4559
|
When powerless one desires freedom; if power is too weak, one desires equal power ('justice')
[Nietzsche]
|
4560
|
The Golden Rule prohibits harmful actions, with the premise that actions will be requited
[Nietzsche]
|
20136
|
There is an extended logic to a great man's life, achieved by a sustained will
[Nietzsche]
|
20358
|
The highest man can endure and control the greatest combination of powerful drives
[Nietzsche]
|
20369
|
The highest man directs the values of the highest natures over millenia
[Nietzsche]
|
20128
|
Each person has a fixed constitution, which makes them a particular type of person
[Nietzsche, by Leiter]
|
22503
|
Nietzsche could only revalue human values for a different species
[Nietzsche, by Foot]
|
8041
|
The superman is a monstrous oddity, not a serious idea
[MacIntyre on Nietzsche]
|
20135
|
Nietzsche's higher type of man is much more important than the idealised 'superman'
[Nietzsche, by Leiter]
|
22475
|
Moral generalisation is wrong, because we should evaluate individual acts
[Nietzsche, by Foot]
|
22476
|
Nietzsche thought our psychology means there can't be universal human virtues
[Nietzsche, by Foot]
|
20371
|
Nietzsche thinks we should join a society, in order to criticise, heal and renew it
[Nietzsche, by Richardson]
|
7847
|
Initially nihilism was cosmic, but later Nietzsche saw it as a cultural matter
[Nietzsche, by Ansell Pearson]
|
9782
|
Nietzsche urges that nihilism be active, and will nothing itself
[Nietzsche, by Zizek]
|
20106
|
Nietzsche was fascinated by a will that can turn against itself
[Nietzsche, by Safranski]
|
20352
|
Nietzsche has a metaphysics, as well as perspectives - the ontology is the perspectives
[Nietzsche, by Richardson]
|
20107
|
How many mediocre thinkers are occupied with influential problems!
[Nietzsche]
|
7846
|
Nietzsche thinks philosophy makes us more profound, but not better
[Nietzsche, by Ansell Pearson]
|
20104
|
Nietzsche tried to lead a thought-provoking life
[Safranski on Nietzsche]
|
20353
|
The 'will to power' is basically applied to drives and forces, not to people
[Nietzsche, by Richardson]
|
20108
|
Every culture loses its identity and power if it lacks a major myth
[Nietzsche]
|
20367
|
Individual development is more important than the state, but a community is necessary
[Nietzsche]
|
20105
|
Storms are wonderful expressions of free powers!
[Nietzsche]
|
20113
|
Friendly chats undermine my philosophy; wanting to be right at the expense of love is folly
[Nietzsche]
|
22501
|
Nietzsche classified actions by the nature of the agent, not the nature of the act
[Nietzsche, by Foot]
|
22500
|
Nietzsche failed to see that moral actions can be voluntary without free will
[Foot on Nietzsche]
|
20102
|
Flight from boredom leads to art
[Nietzsche]
|
20123
|
First see nature as non-human, then fit ourselves into this view of nature
[Nietzsche]
|
20379
|
Reason is just another organic drive, developing late, and fighting for equality
[Nietzsche]
|
20376
|
We begin with concepts of kinds, from individuals; but that is not the essence of individuals
[Nietzsche]
|
18287
|
People now find both wealth and poverty too much of a burden
[Nietzsche]
|
18286
|
The greatest experience possible is contempt for your own happiness, reason and virtue
[Nietzsche]
|
18288
|
Heaven was invented by the sick and the dying
[Nietzsche]
|
18289
|
Forget the word 'I'; 'I' is performed by the intelligence of your body
[Nietzsche]
|
18290
|
But what is the reasoning of the body, that it requires the wisdom you seek?
[Nietzsche]
|
18291
|
Virtues can destroy one another, through jealousy
[Nietzsche]
|
18292
|
I can only believe in a God who can dance
[Nietzsche]
|
18293
|
The noble man wants new virtues; the good man preserves what is old
[Nietzsche]
|
18294
|
The state coldly claims that it is the people, but that is a lie
[Nietzsche]
|
18295
|
If you want friends, you must be a fighter
[Nietzsche]
|
18296
|
An enduring people needs its own individual values
[Nietzsche]
|
18297
|
We created meanings, to maintain ourselves
[Nietzsche]
|
18298
|
There can't be gods, because that leaves us nothing to create!
[Nietzsche]
|
18300
|
Whenever we have seen suffering, we have wanted the revenge of punishment
[Nietzsche]
|
18299
|
The will is constantly frustrated by the past
[Nietzsche]
|
18301
|
We only really love children and work
[Nietzsche]
|
18302
|
Man and woman are deeply strange to one another!
[Nietzsche]
|
18303
|
Reject wisdom that lacks laughter
[Nietzsche]
|
18304
|
Saints want to live as they desire, or not to live at all
[Nietzsche]
|
18305
|
To love truth, you must know how to lie
[Nietzsche]
|
18306
|
We don't want heaven; now that we are men, we want the kingdom of earth
[Nietzsche]
|
18307
|
I want my work, not happiness!
[Nietzsche]
|
20757
|
The powerful self behind your thoughts and feelings is your body
[Nietzsche]
|