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Single Idea 23214
[filed under theme 23. Ethics / F. Existentialism / 2. Nihilism
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Full Idea
In the hands of the strongest every kind of pessimism and nihilism becomes only one more hammer and tool with which one mounts a new pair of wings on oneself.
Gist of Idea
For the strongest people, nihilism gives you wings!
Source
Friedrich Nietzsche (Unpublished Notebooks 1885-86 [1886], 2[101])
Book Ref
Nietzsche,Friedrich: 'Fragments from 1885-86 (v 16)', ed/tr. Del Caro,Adrian [Stanford 2020], p.352
A Reaction
Not sure how this works. Why is great strength needed? Strength implies forceful overcoming. The wings come from rejecting nihilism, but why does that need strength? Aren't there people with wings who never even thought of nihilism?
The
19 ideas
with the same theme
[human life seems pointless and absurd]:
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7072
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Jacobi was the first philosopher to talk of nihilism
[Jacobi, by Critchley]
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22090
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For me time stands still, and I with it
[Kierkegaard, by Carlisle]
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24123
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My eternal recurrence is opposed to feeling fragmented and imperfect
[Nietzsche]
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23214
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For the strongest people, nihilism gives you wings!
[Nietzsche]
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20125
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The ethical teacher exists to give purpose to what happens necessarily and without purpose
[Nietzsche]
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23717
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Modern nihilism is now feeling tired of mankind
[Nietzsche]
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7198
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Nihilism results from measuring the world by our categories which are purely invented
[Nietzsche]
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9782
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Nietzsche urges that nihilism be active, and will nothing itself
[Nietzsche, by Zizek]
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7847
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Initially nihilism was cosmic, but later Nietzsche saw it as a cultural matter
[Nietzsche, by Ansell Pearson]
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18286
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The greatest experience possible is contempt for your own happiness, reason and virtue
[Nietzsche]
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19622
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The pointlessness of our motives and irrelevance of our gestures reveals our vacuity
[Cioran]
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19617
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Evidence suggests that humans do not have a purpose
[Cioran]
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19612
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The universe is dirty and fragile, as if a scandal in nothingness had produced its matter
[Cioran]
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9243
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If we believe existence is absurd, this should dictate our conduct
[Camus]
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6708
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Happiness and the absurd go together, each leading to the other
[Camus]
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23941
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'Absurdity' is just the result of our wrong choices in life
[Solomon]
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3268
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If a small brief life is absurd, then so is a long and large one
[Nagel]
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6688
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Life is only absurd if you expected an explanation and none turns up
[Graham]
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6843
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Perceiving meaninglessness is an achievement, which can transform daily life
[Critchley]
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