The Übermensch at any rate cannot be dissociated from the conception of Überwindung, of overcoming. Man is something that should be overcome—and the man who has overcome himself has become an overman.
The powerful, as Nietzsche points out expressly, have no need to prove their might either to themselves or to others by oppressing or hurting others; if they do hurt others, they do so incidentally in...
My lot is that I must be the first decent human being,
Faith means intense, usually confident, belief that is not based on evidence sufficient to command assent from every reasonable person.
The point is not at all that you are found interesting or fascinating instead of being seen as a fellow I. The shock is rather that you are not found interesting or fascinating at all: you are not rec...
The difference between great philosophers who disagree is perhaps less considerable than that which separates them from their followers. Members of philosophic schools or coteries live on what others...
The projection of one's feeling toward oneself upon a cosmic scale may seem to hinge on a metaphysical premise, but it can be defended empirically. That I am here, now, doing this - that depends on an...