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Friedrich Nietzsche

Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits

  • Agustinaцитирует2 года назад
    he wishes himself to gather the fruit from the tree that he plants and consequently he no longer plants those trees which require centuries of constant cultivation and are destined to afford shade to generation after generation in the future.
  • Agustinaцитирует10 месяцев назад
    Luke 18:14 Improved.—He that humbleth himself wisheth to be exalted.
  • Agustinaцитирует10 месяцев назад
    How comes it that every execution causes us more pain than a murder? It is the coolness of the executioner, the painful preparation, the perception that here a man is being used as an instrument for the intimidation of others. For the guilt is not punished even if there be any: this is ascribable to the teachers, the parents, the environment, in ourselves, not in the murderer—I mean the predisposing circumstances.
  • Agustinaцитирует10 месяцев назад
    Every virtue has its privilege: for example, that of contributing its own little bundle of wood to the funeral pyre of one condemned.
  • Agustinaцитирует10 месяцев назад
    Actions can be promised, but not feelings, for these are involuntary.
  • Arthur Sцитирует3 года назад
    mater saeva cupidinum, encircles
  • crunchy cheeriosцитирует4 года назад
    A sudden dread and distrust of that which they loved, a flash of contempt for that which is called their "duty," a mutinous, wilful, volcanic-like longing for a far away journey, strange scenes and people, annihilation, petrifaction, a hatred surmounting love, perhaps a sacrilegious impulse and look backwards, to where they so long prayed and loved, perhaps a flush of shame for what they did and at the same time an exultation at having done it, an inner, intoxicating, delightful tremor in which is betrayed the sense of victory—a victory? over what? over whom? a riddle-like victory, fruitful in questioning and well worth questioning, but the first victory, for all—such things of pain and ill belong to the history of the great liberation
  • Medionцитирует5 лет назад
    People whose daily lives are empty and colorless are readily religious. This is comprehensible and pardonable, but they have no right to demand that others, whose daily lives are not empty and colorless, should be religious also.
  • Medionцитирует5 лет назад
    An inclination towards a thing, or from a thing, without an accompanying feeling that the beneficial is desired and the pernicious contemned, an inclination without a sort of experiential estimation of the desirability of an end, does not exist in man. We are primordially illogical and hence unjust beings and can recognise this fact: this is one of the greatest and most baffling discords of existence.
  • Medionцитирует5 лет назад
    Here, for the purpose of affording the means of transition, for the sake of lightening the spirit overburdened with feeling, art can be employed to far better purpose, as these hypotheses receive far less support from art than from a metaphysical philosophy. Then from art it is easier to go over to a really emancipating philosophical science.
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