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Single Idea 18320
[filed under theme 25. Social Practice / E. Policies / 1. War / a. Just wars
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Full Idea
One has renounced grand life when one renounces war.
Gist of Idea
To renounce war is to renounce the grand life
Source
Friedrich Nietzsche (Twilight of the Idols [1889], 4.3)
Book Ref
Nietzsche,Friedrich: 'Twilight of the Idols and The Anti-Christ', ed/tr. Hollingdale,R.J. [Penguin 1972], p.44
A Reaction
Nietzsche was a medical orderly in the 1870 Franco-Prussian war, so he had seen it at first hand. I think the machine gun and the heavy bomber would have changed his attitude to warfare. He sounds a bit silly now. Nostalgia for the Iliad.
The
49 ideas
from 'Twilight of the Idols'
15606
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Military idea: what does not kill me makes me stronger
[Nietzsche]
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2891
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Only the English actually strive after happiness
[Nietzsche]
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2892
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Wanting a system in philosophy is a lack of integrity
[Nietzsche]
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20101
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Without music life would be a mistake
[Nietzsche]
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2893
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In every age the wisest people have judged life to be worthless
[Nietzsche]
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18308
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A philosopher fails in wisdom if he thinks the value of life is a problem
[Nietzsche]
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2894
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Value judgements about life can never be true
[Nietzsche]
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2895
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The value of life cannot be estimated
[Nietzsche]
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2896
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I want to understand the Socratic idea that 'reason equals virtue equals happiness'
[Nietzsche]
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2897
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With dialectics the rabble gets on top
[Nietzsche]
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2898
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Anything which must first be proved is of little value
[Nietzsche]
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2899
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The fanatical rationality of Greek philosophy shows that they were in a state of emergency
[Nietzsche]
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18309
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The evidence of the senses is falsified by reason
[Nietzsche]
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2900
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I revere Heraclitus
[Nietzsche]
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18312
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The supreme general but empty concepts must be compatible, and hence we get 'God'
[Nietzsche]
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18310
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The 'highest' concepts are the most general and empty concepts
[Nietzsche]
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18311
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Philosophers hate values having an origin, and want values to be self-sufficient
[Nietzsche]
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18313
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The big error is to think the will is a faculty producing effects; in fact, it is just a word
[Nietzsche]
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18314
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In language we treat 'ego' as a substance, and it is thus that we create the concept 'thing'
[Nietzsche]
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18315
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We get the concept of 'being' from the concept of the 'ego'
[Nietzsche]
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18316
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The grounds for an assertion that the world is only apparent actually establish its reality
[Nietzsche]
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18318
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People who disparage actual life avenge themselves by imagining a better one
[Nietzsche]
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18317
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The 'real being' of things is a nothingness constructed from contradictions in the actual world
[Nietzsche]
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2901
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How could the Church intelligently fight against passion if it preferred poorness of spirit to intelligence?
[Nietzsche]
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18319
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Love is the spiritualisation of sensuality
[Nietzsche]
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18320
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To renounce war is to renounce the grand life
[Nietzsche]
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2902
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Healthy morality is dominated by an instinct for life
[Nietzsche]
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18322
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When we establish values, that is life itself establishing them, through us
[Nietzsche]
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18321
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To evaluate life one must know it, but also be situated outside of it
[Nietzsche]
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2903
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A good human will be virtuous because they are happy
[Nietzsche]
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18323
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Any explanation will be accepted as true if it gives pleasure and a feeling of power
[Nietzsche]
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2904
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The doctrine of free will has been invented essentially in order to blame and punish people
[Nietzsche]
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2905
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'Purpose' is just a human fiction
[Nietzsche]
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2906
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By denying God we deny human accountability, and thus we redeem the world
[Nietzsche]
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18324
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There are no moral facts, and moralists believe in realities which do not exist
[Nietzsche]
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20133
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The 'motive' is superficial, and may even hide the antecedents of a deed
[Nietzsche]
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2908
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There is a need for educators who are themselves educated
[Nietzsche]
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2909
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Thinking has to be learned in the way dancing has to be learned
[Nietzsche]
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18325
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Christians believe that only God can know what is good for man
[Nietzsche]
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18326
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The beautiful never stands alone; it derives from man's pleasure in man
[Nietzsche]
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20368
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There are no 'individual' persons; we are each the sum of humanity up to this moment
[Nietzsche]
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18327
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A wholly altruistic morality, with no egoism, is a thoroughly bad thing
[Nietzsche]
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18328
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Invalids are parasites
[Nietzsche]
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18329
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Sometimes it is an error to have been born - but we can rectify it
[Nietzsche]
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18330
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Judging by the positive forces, the Renaissance was the last great age
[Nietzsche]
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18331
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Democracy is organisational power in decline
[Nietzsche]
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18332
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The creation of institutions needs a determination which is necessarily anti-liberal
[Nietzsche]
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2911
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True justice is equality for equals and inequality for unequals
[Nietzsche]
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2913
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Thucydides was the perfect anti-platonist sophist
[Nietzsche]
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