Nietzsche was the one who did the job for me. At a certain moment in his life,the idea came to him of what he called 'the love of your fate.' Whatever your fate is, whatever the hell happens, you say,...
Sombres, dites-vous? Mais posez-vous la question docteur : pourquoi tous les grands philosophes sont-ils sombres? Demandez-vous qui sont les gens satisfaits, rassurés et éternellement joyeux! Laissez-...
No other German writer of comparable stature has been a more extreme critic of German nationalism than Nietzsche.
See Francis Fukuyama, The End of History and the Last man (London: Penguin, 1993). Note the often-overlooked second part where Fukuyama criticizes the end of history as leading to the last man.
I obviously do everything to be hard to understand myself
We can never comprehend the depths of gloom of night in the light of day.
¿Sabe lo que es saber que, cuando muera, pueden pasar días o semanas sin que se descubra mi cuerpo, antes de que el olor fétido atraiga a algún extraño? Intento consolarme. A veces, cuando me siento m...
Every means hitherto employed with the intention of making mankind moral has been thoroughly immoral.
A nation is a detour of nature to arrive at five or six great men- yes, and then to get around them.
The final reward of the dead - to die no more
It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right --especially when one is right.
The worst readers are those who behave like plundering troops: they take away a few things they can use, dirty and confound the remainder, and revile the whole.
To leave is to suffer,to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.
For one thing is needful: that a human being should attain satisfaction with himself, whether it be by means of this or that poetry or art; only then is a human being at all tolerable to behold. Whoev...
What doesn't kill us makes a good story.
As the savage progresses, he acquires experience and formulates codes of 'right' and 'wrong' from his memories of those courses which have helped or hurt him... Then out of the principle of barter com...
If you stare at someone long enough, they'll eventually look back at you.
Your only problem, perhaps, is that you scream without letting yourself cry.
Everyone who has ever built anywhere a new heaven first found the power thereto in his own hell.
Did you ever say yes to a pleasure? oh my friends, then you also said yes to all pain. all things are linked, entwined, in love with one another.
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