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philosophybits · 1 year

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I want, once and for all, not to know many things. Wisdom requires moderation in knowledge as in other things.

Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

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philosophybitmaps · 6 months

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derangedrhythms · 1 year

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Without music life would be a mistake.

Friedrich Nietzsche, from 'Twilight of the Idols', tr. R. J. Hollingdale

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sictransitgloriamvndi · 1 year

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albarrancabrera · 2 years

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“To learn to see-to accustom the eye to calmness, to patience, and to allow things to come up to it; to defer judgment, and to acquire the habit of approaching and grasping an individual case from all sides. This is the first preparatory schooling of intellectuality. One must not respond immediately to a stimulus; one must acquire a command of the obstructing and isolating instincts.”

― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

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dreaminginthedeepsouth · 1 year

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(Art: Photograph by Vivian Maier)

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Human beings were thought to be “free” so that they could be ruled, so that they could be punished, so that they could become guilty.

~Friedrich Nietzsche

(Book: Twilight of the Idols)

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Full citation: “Human beings were thought to be “free” so that they could be ruled, so that they could be punished, so that they could become guilty: consequently, every action had to be thought of as willed, the origin of every action had to be thought to lie in consciousness (and thus the most fundamental act of counterfeiting in psychologicis [in psychological matters] was itself made into the principle of psychology...).

Today, when we have started in the opposite direction, when we immoralists are trying with all our strength to get the concepts of guilt and punishment back out of the world, and to purge psychology, history, nature, social institutions, and sanctions of these concepts, there is in our eyes no opposition more radical than that of the theologians, who, with the concept of the “moral order of the world,” go on infecting the innocence of becoming with “punishment” and “guilt.” Christianity is a metaphysics of the hangman...”

~Friedrich Nietzsche

[Philo Thoughts]

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fangednominals · 1 year

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HOW THE “TRUE WORLD” FINALLY BECAME A FABLE. The History of an Error. By Friedrich Nietzsche.

1. The true world — attainable for the sage, the pious, the virtuous man; he lives in it, he is it.

(The oldest form of the idea, relatively sensible, simple, and persuasive. A circumlocution for the sentence, “I, Plato, am the truth.”)

2. The true world — unattainable for now, but promised for the sage, the pious, the virtuous man (“for the sinner who repents”).

(Progress of the idea: it becomes more subtle, insidious, incomprehensible — it becomes female, it becomes Christian.)

3. The true world — unattainable, indemonstrable, unpromisable; but the very thought of it — a consolation, an obligation, an imperative.

(At bottom, the old sun, but seen through mist and skepticism. The idea has become elusive, pale, Nordic, Königsbergian.)

4. The true world — unattainable? At any rate, unattained. And being unattained, also unknown. Consequently, not consoling, redeeming, or obligating: how could something unknown obligate us?

(Gray morning. The first yawn of reason. The cockcrow of positivism.)

5. The “true” world — an idea which is no longer good for anything, not even obligating — an idea which has become useless and superfluous — consequently, a refuted idea: let us abolish it!

(Bright day; breakfast; return of bon sens and cheerfulness; Plato’s embarrassed blush; pandemonium of all free spirits.)

6. The true world — we have abolished. What world has remained? The apparent one perhaps? But no! With the true world we have also abolished the apparent one.

(Noon; moment of the briefest shadow; end of the longest error; high point of humanity; INCIPIT ZARATHUSTRA.)

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beljar · 2 years

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A man recovers best from his exceptional nature - his intellectuality - by giving his animal instincts a chance.

Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols, 1889

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sspacegodd · 2 months

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That which doesn't kill me gives me a lot of unhealthy coping mechanisms and a really dark sense of humor.

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principiumindividuationis777 · 2 months

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Everyone has heard or read these words in some form, but few know that they were first written by Friedrich Nietzsche, as compiled in "Twilight of the Idols, or, How to Philosophize with a Hammer" (1889).

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philosophybits · 2 years

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The so-called motive: another error. Merely a surface phenomenon of consciousness, something alongside the deed that is more likely to cover up the antecedents of the deeds than to represent them.

Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

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philosophybitmaps · 1 year

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