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PHILOSOPHY: english, for **magic** ;0)
Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, Chapter One, “Prejudices of Philosophers,” Aphorism No.6, Translated by Helen Zimmern, 1907 (Circa 2007 by Barnes & Noble, Inc.). It has gradually become clear to me what every great philosophy up till now has consisted of – namely, the confession of its originator, and a species of involuntary and…
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IT DOES NOT RESONATE ON A RICHTER SCALE?
Why I love Nietzsche ;0P EXISTENTIALISM: From Dostoevsky to Sartre (Walter Kaufmann) “…he repudiated Christianity not because he considered it too rational but because he considered it the archenemy of reason…” “…with one fatal leap, a poor ignorant weariness that does not want to want any more; this created all gods and afterworlds. Believe me,…
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FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE, MY LOVE: the changing subjectivity of “truth” ;0)
BEYOND GOOD AND EVIL – Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future. OUR VIRTUES/Aphorism 231. Circa 1886. Learning changes us; it does what all nourishment does which also does not merely “preserve” – as physiologists know. But at the bottom of us, really “deep down,” there is, of course, something unteachable, some granite of spiritual…
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FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE, MY LOVE: That thou her Maid art far more fair than she.
BEYOND GOOD AND EVIL: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future. WHAT IS NOBLE/Aphorism No. 263 CIRCA 1886 There is an instinct for rank which, more than anything else, is a sign of a high rank; there is a delight in the nuances of reverence that allows us to infer noble origin and habits. The…