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"Twilight of the Idols", an attack on all the prevalent ideas of his time, offers a lightning tour of his whole philosophy. It also prepares the way for "The Anti-Christ", a final assault on institutional Christianity. Both works show Nietzsche lashing out at self-deception, astounded at how... read more
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“'Why so hard?' the charcoal once said to the diamond, 'for are we not close relations?' Why so soft? my brothers, thus I ask you: for are you not my brothers?”
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To have to combat one’s instincts – that is the formula for décadence: as long as life is ascending, happiness and instinct are one. –
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But to attack the passions at their roots means to attack life at its roots: the practice of the Church is hostile to life…
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‘Reason’ is the cause of our falsification of the evidence of the senses.
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The ‘apparent’ world is the only one: the ‘real’ world has only been lyingly added…
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In every age the wisest have passed the identical judgement on life: it is worthless.…
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From the military school of life. – What does not kill me makes me stronger.
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Christianity presupposes that man does not know, cannot know what is good for him and what evil: he believes in God, who alone knows. Christian morality is a command: its origin is transcendental; it is beyond all criticism, all right to criticize; it possesses truth only if God is truth – it stands or falls with the belief in God.
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Man does not strive after happiness; only the Englishman does that.
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Christianity, with ressentiment against life in its foundations, which made of sexuality something impure: it threw filth on the beginning, on the prerequisite of our life…
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18. He who does not know how to put his will into things at least puts a meaning into them: that is, he believes there is a will in them already (principle of ‘belief’).
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In every age the wisest have passed the identical judgement on life: it is worthless. . . . Everywhere and always their mouths have uttered the same sound - a sound full of doubt, full of melancholy, full of weariness with life, full of opposition to life.
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- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (Author)
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