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[filed under theme 24. Political Theory / B. Nature of a State / 2. State Legitimacy / b. Natural authority
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Full Idea
Some pack of blond beasts of prey, on a war footing, unscrupulously lays its dreadful paws on a populace which is shapeless. In this way the 'state' began on earth. I think I have dispensed with the fantasy which has it begin with a 'contract'.
Gist of Idea
The state begins with brutal conquest of a disorganised people, not with a 'contract'
Source
Friedrich Nietzsche (On the Genealogy of Morals [1887], II.§17)
Book Ref
Nietzsche,Friedrich: 'On the Genealogy of Morals/ Ecce Homo', ed/tr. Kaufmann,Walter [Vintage 1969], p.86
A Reaction
[compressed] It is certainly likely that a tribe which got itself well organised and focused on some end would achieve total dominance over other tribes that just focus on food.
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]
|
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]
|
2917
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Christianity is a revolt of things crawling on the ground against elevated things
[Nietzsche]
|
2916
|
The great lie of immortality destroys rationality and natural instinct
[Nietzsche]
|
2918
|
The story in Genesis is the story of God's fear of science
[Nietzsche]
|
23520
|
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]
|
7080
|
Metaphysics divided the old unified Greek world into two
[Nietzsche, by Critchley]
|
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]
|
23440
|
Nietzsche's judgement of actions by psychology instead of outcome was poisonous
[Foot on Nietzsche]
|
7079
|
Nietzsche resists nihilism through new values, for a world of becoming, without worship
[Nietzsche, by Critchley]
|
1568
|
Nietzsche felt that Plato's views downgraded the human body and its brevity of life
[Nietzsche, by Roochnik]
|
2860
|
The most boring and dangerous of all errors is Plato's invention of pure spirit and goodness
[Nietzsche]
|
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
|
We shouldn't object to a false judgement, if it enhances and preserves life
[Nietzsche]
|
20355
|
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]
|
2877
|
Morality becomes a problem when we compare many moralities
[Nietzsche]
|
2859
|
The idea of the categorical imperative is just that we should all be very obedient
[Nietzsche]
|
2878
|
We see an approximation of a tree, not the full detail
[Nietzsche]
|
20134
|
Moralities extravagantly address themselves to 'all', by falsely generalising
[Nietzsche]
|
2879
|
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]
|
2881
|
Virtue has been greatly harmed by the boringness of its advocates
[Nietzsche]
|
20139
|
Only aristocratic societies can elevate the human species
[Nietzsche]
|
20373
|
A healthy aristocracy has no qualms about using multitudes of men as instruments
[Nietzsche]
|
2883
|
Noble people see themselves as the determiners of values
[Nietzsche]
|
2882
|
Morality originally judged people, and actions only later on
[Nietzsche]
|
2884
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The morality of slaves is the morality of utility
[Nietzsche]
|
20382
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The four virtues are courage, insight, sympathy, solitude
[Nietzsche]
|
2885
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The noble soul has reverence for itself
[Nietzsche]
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20230
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The very idea of a critique of morality is regarded as immoral!
[Nietzsche]
|
20229
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No authority ever willingly accepts criticism
[Nietzsche]
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20380
|
Why should truth be omnipotent? It is enough that it is very powerful
[Nietzsche]
|
20231
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People used to think that outcomes were from God, rather than consequences of acts
[Nietzsche]
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20233
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Punishment has distorted the pure innocence of the contingency of outcomes
[Nietzsche]
|
20232
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Get rid of the idea of punishment! It is a noxious weed!
[Nietzsche]
|
20234
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Morality prevents us from developing better customs
[Nietzsche]
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20235
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Like animals, we seek truth because we want safety
[Nietzsche]
|
20236
|
Marriage upholds the idea that love, though a passion, can endure
[Nietzsche]
|
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]
|
20241
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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]
|
20243
|
Human beings are not majestic, either through divine origins, or through grand aims
[Nietzsche]
|
20244
|
Christianity replaces rational philosophical virtues with great passions focused on God
[Nietzsche]
|
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
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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
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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]
|
20257
|
Cool courage and feverish bravery have one name, but are two very different virtues
[Nietzsche]
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20258
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Most people treat knowledge as a private possession
[Nietzsche]
|
20259
|
Teach youth to respect people who differ with them, not people who agree with them
[Nietzsche]
|
20260
|
Carlyle spent his life vainly trying to make reason appear romantic
[Nietzsche]
|
20261
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History does not concern what really happened, but supposed events, which have all the influence
[Nietzsche]
|
20262
|
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]
|
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]
|
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
|
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]
|
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]
|
20271
|
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
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The French Revolution gave trusting Europe the false delusion of instant recovery
[Nietzsche]
|
20274
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The cardinal virtues want us to be honest, brave, magnanimous and polite
[Nietzsche]
|
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]
|
2887
|
I am not an atheist because of reasoning or evidence, but because of instinct
[Nietzsche]
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2886
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The distinction between egoistic and non-egoistic acts is absurd
[Nietzsche]
|
4426
|
A bad result distorts one's judgement about the virtue of what one has done
[Nietzsche]
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2889
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One repays a teacher badly if one remains only a pupil
[Nietzsche]
|
20132
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To become what you are you must have no self-awareness
[Nietzsche]
|
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
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Seeing with other eyes is more egoism, but exploring other perspectives leads to objectivity
[Nietzsche]
|
24085
|
For absolute morality a goal for mankind is needed
[Nietzsche]
|
24086
|
The goal is to settle human beings, like other animals, but humans are still changeable
[Nietzsche]
|
24087
|
People who miss beauty seek the sublime, where even the ugly shows its 'beauty'
[Nietzsche]
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24088
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See our present lives as eternal! Religions see it as fleeting, and aim at some different life
[Nietzsche]
|
24089
|
Essences are fictions needed for beings who represent things
[Nietzsche]
|
24090
|
Our inclinations would not conflict if we were a unity; we imagine unity for our multiplicity
[Nietzsche]
|
24091
|
The sublimity of nature which dwarfs us was a human creation
[Nietzsche]
|
24092
|
I tell the truth, even if it is repulsive
[Nietzsche]
|
24093
|
We can aspire to greatness by creating new functions for ourselves
[Nietzsche]
|
24094
|
Humans are vividly aware of short-term effects, and almost ignorant of the long-term ones
[Nietzsche]
|
24095
|
Our growth is too subtle to perceive, and long events are too slow for us to grasp
[Nietzsche]
|
24124
|
We now have innumerable perspectives to draw on
[Nietzsche]
|
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
|
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]
|
24131
|
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]
|
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]
|
24135
|
Egoism should not assume that all egos are equal
[Nietzsche]
|
24136
|
Who can endure the thought of eternal recurrence?
[Nietzsche]
|
24138
|
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
|
Cause and effect is a hypothesis, based on our supposed willing of actions
[Nietzsche]
|
24141
|
Having a sense of time presupposes absolute time
[Nietzsche]
|
24142
|
What matters is how humans can be developed
[Nietzsche]
|
24143
|
Thinkers might agree some provisional truths, as methodological assumptions
[Nietzsche]
|
24144
|
A cognitive mechanism wanting to know itself is absurd!
[Nietzsche]
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24145
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Mind is a mechanism of abstraction and simplification, aimed at control
[Nietzsche]
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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]
|
24149
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Values need a perspective, of preserving some aspect of life
[Nietzsche]
|
24150
|
We can only understand through concepts, which subsume particulars in generalities
[Nietzsche]
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24151
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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
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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]
|
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]
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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
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The mind is a simplifying apparatus
[Nietzsche]
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23186
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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]
|
23188
|
Bad writers use shapeless floating splotches of concepts
[Nietzsche]
|
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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23191
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Minds have an excluding drive to scare things off, and a selecting one to filter facts
[Nietzsche]
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23192
|
Concepts don’t match one thing, but many things a little bit
[Nietzsche]
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23193
|
Napoleon was very focused, and rightly ignored compassion
[Nietzsche]
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23194
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People feel united as a nation by one language, but then want a common ancestry and history
[Nietzsche]
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23195
|
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
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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]
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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
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To be someone you need property, and wanting more is healthy
[Nietzsche]
|
23205
|
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
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Appearance is the sole reality of things, to which all predicates refer
[Nietzsche]
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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]
|
20198
|
Many virtues are harmful traps, but that is why other people praise them
[Nietzsche]
|
9306
|
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]
|
4423
|
We assume causes, geometry, motion, bodies etc to live, but they haven't been proved
[Nietzsche]
|
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]
|
24080
|
We should give style to our character - by applying an artistic plan to its strengths and weaknesses
[Nietzsche]
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20141
|
Higher human beings see and hear far more than others, and do it more thoughtfully
[Nietzsche]
|
24081
|
Most of our intellectual activity is unconscious
[Nietzsche]
|
2933
|
Why do you listen to the voice of your conscience?
[Nietzsche]
|
2932
|
'Know thyself' is impossible and ridiculous
[Nietzsche]
|
2935
|
No two actions are the same
[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]
|
20118
|
Only our conscious thought is verbal, and this shows the origin of consciousness
[Nietzsche]
|
20116
|
Most of our lives, even the important parts, take place outside of consciousness
[Nietzsche]
|
20120
|
Whatever moves into consciousness becomes thereby much more superficial
[Nietzsche]
|
20115
|
All of our normal mental life could be conducted without consciousness
[Nietzsche]
|
20117
|
Only the need for communication has led to consciousness developing
[Nietzsche]
|
20122
|
We have no organ for knowledge or truth; we only 'know' what is useful to the human herd
[Nietzsche]
|
20119
|
We became increasingly conscious of our sense impressions in order to communicate them
[Nietzsche]
|
20121
|
Grammar only reveals popular metaphysics
[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]
|
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]
|
23720
|
Punishment makes people harder, more alienated, and hostile
[Nietzsche]
|
4418
|
A masterful and violent person need have nothing to do with contracts
[Nietzsche]
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20142
|
The state begins with brutal conquest of a disorganised people, not with a 'contract'
[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]
|
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]
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4421
|
Philosophers have never asked why there is a will to truth in the first place
[Nietzsche]
|
20143
|
Scientific knowledge is nothing without a prior philosophical 'faith'
[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]
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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]
|
14824
|
It is absurd to blame nature and necessity; we should no more praise actions than we praise plants or artworks
[Nietzsche]
|
14823
|
Ceasing to believe in human responsibility is bitter, if you had based the nobility of humanity on it
[Nietzsche]
|
22473
|
Nietzsche said the will doesn't exist, so it can't ground moral responsibility
[Nietzsche, by Foot]
|
14826
|
Modern man wants laws of nature in order to submit to them
[Nietzsche]
|
14825
|
In religious thought nature is a complex of arbitrary acts by conscious beings
[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]
|
14837
|
Christ seems warm hearted, and suppressed intellect in favour of the intellectually weak
[Nietzsche]
|
14838
|
The state aims to protect individuals from one another
[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]
|
7156
|
Sense perceptions contain values (useful, so pleasant)
[Nietzsche]
|
7155
|
Consciousness exists to the extent that consciousness is useful
[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]
|
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]
|
7180
|
Darwin overestimates the influence of 'external circumstances'
[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]
|
7200
|
A combination of great power and goodness would mean the disastrous abolition of evil
[Nietzsche]
|
7201
|
Knowledge, wisdom and goodness only have value relative to a goal
[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]
|
7196
|
Pessimism is laughable, because the world cannot be evaluated
[Nietzsche]
|
7195
|
If the world aimed at an end, it would have reached it by now
[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]
|
7207
|
Counting needs unities, but that doesn't mean they exist; we borrowed it from the concept of 'I'
[Nietzsche]
|
7206
|
Things are strong or weak, and do not behave regularly or according to rules or compulsions
[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]
|
18308
|
A philosopher fails in wisdom if he thinks the value of life is a problem
[Nietzsche]
|
2894
|
Value judgements about life can never be true
[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]
|
18312
|
The supreme general but empty concepts must be compatible, and hence we get 'God'
[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]
|
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]
|
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]
|
18316
|
The grounds for an assertion that the world is only apparent actually establish its reality
[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]
|
18321
|
To evaluate life one must know it, but also be situated outside of it
[Nietzsche]
|
18322
|
When we establish values, that is life itself establishing them, through us
[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]
|
2905
|
'Purpose' is just a human fiction
[Nietzsche]
|
2906
|
By denying God we deny human accountability, and thus we redeem the world
[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]
|
18329
|
Sometimes it is an error to have been born - but we can rectify it
[Nietzsche]
|
18328
|
Invalids are parasites
[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]
|
14879
|
The most extreme scepticism is when you even give up logic
[Nietzsche]
|
14880
|
Logic is just slavery to language
[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]
|
4496
|
'Conscience' is invented to value actions by intention and conformity to 'law', rather than consequences
[Nietzsche]
|
4497
|
The concept of 'God' represents a turning away from life, and a critique of life
[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]
|
4501
|
Utilitarianism criticises the origins of morality, but still believes in it as much as Christians
[Nietzsche]
|
4502
|
Morality cannot survive when the God who sanctions it is missing
[Nietzsche]
|
20383
|
The wisest man is full of contradictions, and attuned to other people, with occasional harmony
[Nietzsche]
|
20370
|
All evaluation is from some perspective, and aims at survival
[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]
|
23939
|
We fail to see that reason is a network of passions, and every passion contains some reason
[Nietzsche]
|
23938
|
Passions are ranked, as if they are non-rational and animal pleasure seeking
[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]
|
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]
|
4531
|
Our inability to both affirm and deny a single thing is merely an inability, not a 'necessity'
[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]
|
4537
|
We can't know whether there is knowledge if we don't know what it is
[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]
|
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]
|
22476
|
Nietzsche thought our psychology means there can't be universal human virtues
[Nietzsche, by Foot]
|
22475
|
Moral generalisation is wrong, because we should evaluate individual acts
[Nietzsche, by Foot]
|
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]
|
20371
|
Nietzsche thinks we should join a society, in order to criticise, heal and renew it
[Nietzsche, by Richardson]
|
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]
|
18290
|
But what is the reasoning of the body, that it requires the wisdom you seek?
[Nietzsche]
|
18289
|
Forget the word 'I'; 'I' is performed by the intelligence of your body
[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]
|
18297
|
We created meanings, to maintain ourselves
[Nietzsche]
|
18296
|
An enduring people needs its own individual values
[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]
|