The Philosophy of Friedrich NietzscheLuce, 1908 - 325 pages |
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... ancient or beautiful does not interest him . The question is asked invariably , Is it true ? If he concludes that it is not , he says so , and if it happens to be something that is regarded with unusual reverence by the majority of men ...
... ancient or beautiful does not interest him . The question is asked invariably , Is it true ? If he concludes that it is not , he says so , and if it happens to be something that is regarded with unusual reverence by the majority of men ...
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... ancient kingship that primal instinct which enables every efficient individual to differentiate between the things which are beneficial to him and the things which are harmful . Here we have the bare framework or skeleton of Niet ...
... ancient kingship that primal instinct which enables every efficient individual to differentiate between the things which are beneficial to him and the things which are harmful . Here we have the bare framework or skeleton of Niet ...
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... ancient preparatory academy not far away . Pforta , in those days , was of a dignity comparable to Eton's or Harrow's . It was a great school , but tradition overpowered it . Violent combats between amateur sages were not encouraged ...
... ancient preparatory academy not far away . Pforta , in those days , was of a dignity comparable to Eton's or Harrow's . It was a great school , but tradition overpowered it . Violent combats between amateur sages were not encouraged ...
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... ancients , his first ( and last ) university appointment and his meeting with Richard Wagner . Nietzsche always looked back ' Friedrich Wilhelm Ritschl ( 1806-1876 ) , the foremost philologist of modern times . He became a professor of ...
... ancients , his first ( and last ) university appointment and his meeting with Richard Wagner . Nietzsche always looked back ' Friedrich Wilhelm Ritschl ( 1806-1876 ) , the foremost philologist of modern times . He became a professor of ...
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... ancient first causes . Nietzsche knew nothing of him , and in the semi- naries of Leipsic not a soul maintained him . Of Kant and of Hegel there was talk unlimited , and of Lotze and Fichte there were riotous disputations that roared ...
... ancient first causes . Nietzsche knew nothing of him , and in the semi- naries of Leipsic not a soul maintained him . Of Kant and of Hegel there was talk unlimited , and of Lotze and Fichte there were riotous disputations that roared ...
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Page 269 - I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life, the life of toil and effort, of labor and strife; to preach that highest form of success which comes, not to the man who desires mere easy peace, but to the man who does not shrink from danger, from hardship, or from bitter toil, and who out of these wins the splendid ultimate triumph.
Page 78 - Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife, nor his man-servant, nor his maid-servant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbor's.
Page 122 - American's conviction that he must be able to look any man in the eye and tell him to go to hell, are the very essence of the free man's way of life.
Page 128 - These angels and men, thus predestinated and foreordained, are particularly and unchangeably designed ; and their number is so certain and definite, that it cannot be either increased or diminished.
Page 269 - China has already found, that in this world the nation that has trained itself to a career of unwarlike and isolated ease is bound in the end to go down before other nations which have not lost the manly and adventurous qualities.
Page 81 - evil" is of a different origin. The cowardly, the timid, the insignificant, and those thinking merely of narrow utility are despised; moreover, also, the distrustful, with their constrained glances, the self-abasing, the dog-like kind of men who let themselves be abused, the mendicant flatterers, and above all the liars:— it is a fundamental belief of all aristocrats that the common people are untruthful. "We truthful ones"— the nobility in ancient Greece called themselves.
Page 202 - He who can command, he who is a master by "nature," he who comes on the scene forceful in deed and gesture— what has he to do with contracts? Such beings defy calculation, they come like fate, without cause, reason, notice, excuse, they are there as the lightning is there, too terrible, too sudden, too convincing, too "different,
Page 167 - Ye say it is the good cause which halloweth even war? I say unto you: it is the good war which halloweth every cause. War and courage have done more great things than charity.
Page 234 - The man who has become free - and how much more the mind that has become free - spurns the contemptible sort of well-being dreamed of by shopkeepers, Christians, cows, women, Englishmen and other democrats. The free man is a warrior.