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... from my favorite German philosopher & philologist, Friedrich Nietzsche.
Become who you are.
- F.W. Nietzsche
It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in ... greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously.
- F.W. Nietzsche
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and ...
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Twilight of the Idols
(Friedrich Nietzsche, 4:43)
Another Librivox recording, and Nietzsche has always been an author I've been pining to re-read since I devoured his work in college. ... but plenty of the pungency and pith is there. I was more embarrassed this time by the bluster and misogyny. Still, as a psychologist, Nietzsche has penetrating insights, and it was a pleasure to review this text.
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Nietzsche's most famous observation was 'that which does not kill me makes me stronger', which plainly isn't true. I can think of loads of non-fatal things which won't do that.
Ten things which probably won't kill you but are highly unlikely to make you stronger:
1) Halitosis
2) Accidentally sitting on a cactus
3) Deliberately sittting on a cactus
4) Happy Meals as part ...
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... of excessive work has worn me out. Turning the pages of some Nietzsche's writings sparked back some quick adrenaline ... , selfish, and moreover piteously unoriginal sociability' -Friedrich Nietzsche.
-Architecture as mere street art - ... of architecture is undergoing, towards the nihilistic nothingness. The last sentence of that Nietzsche's line perfectly encapsulate the state architecture ...
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... what makes Nietzsche so many Christians' favorite atheist: Friedrich Nietzsche was the product of a line of Lutherans pastors, so it should not surprise that his atheism engages so directly, and inverts so forcefully, the thrust of Christianity. As philosophy goes much of what Nietzsche had to say was captivating, but then I also find science fiction captivating, as well as some ...
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... Source has announced the publication of the complete posthumous fragments of Nietzsche in the Digital critical edition, based on the critical text ... allowing each fragment or manuscript page to be cited individually.
Nietzsche Source is a website devoted to the publication of scholarly content on the work and life of Friedrich Nietzsche. It is not subscription-based and can be freely consulted and ...
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The following is excerpted from Friedrich Nietzsche's first major work, "The Birth of Tragedy," 1872:
An old legend has it that King Midas hunted a long time in the woods for the wise Silenus, companion of Dionysos, without being able to catch him. When he had finally caught him the king asked him what he considered man's greatest good. ...
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... In all willing it is absolutely a question of commanding and obeying, on the basis, as already said, of a social structure composed of many 'souls'." -- Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future (Kaufmann translation), paragraph 19By the way, the idea of modeling an individual choice with a structure ...
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Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (October 15, 1844 – August 25, 1900) was a nineteenth-century German ... German language style and displaying a fondness for aphorism. Nietzsche's influence remains substantial within and beyond philosophy, notably in ... of Platonism, and a repudiation of (especially 19th-century) Christianity.
Nietzsche began his career as a classical philologist before turning to ...
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All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.
I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his "divine service."
-Friedrich Nietzsche
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