The Philosophy of Friedrich NietzscheLuce, 1908 - 325 pages |
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... earth , it had but one aim and object : that of perpetuating itself . This instinct , he said , was still at the bottom of every function of all living beings . Intelligence grew out of the fact that mankind , in the course of ages ...
... earth , it had but one aim and object : that of perpetuating itself . This instinct , he said , was still at the bottom of every function of all living beings . Intelligence grew out of the fact that mankind , in the course of ages ...
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... earth and pro- curing food and raiment . He showed , yet further , that its bad effects were a great deal more numerous than its good effects and so accounted for the fact which many men before him had observed that life , at best ...
... earth and pro- curing food and raiment . He showed , yet further , that its bad effects were a great deal more numerous than its good effects and so accounted for the fact which many men before him had observed that life , at best ...
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... earth below or in the vasty void above . - When Nietzsche had worked out this theory of Greek tragedy and of Greek life , he set out , at once , to apply it to modern civilization , to see if it could explain certain \ ideas of the ...
... earth below or in the vasty void above . - When Nietzsche had worked out this theory of Greek tragedy and of Greek life , he set out , at once , to apply it to modern civilization , to see if it could explain certain \ ideas of the ...
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... earth , she has been the supreme mistress of seduction . ” Thus " a double wall is put up against the continued test- ing , selection and criticism of values . On one hand is revelation , and on the other , veneration and tradition ...
... earth , she has been the supreme mistress of seduction . ” Thus " a double wall is put up against the continued test- ing , selection and criticism of values . On one hand is revelation , and on the other , veneration and tradition ...
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... shown later on , the beatitudes would have wiped us from the face of the earth centuries ago had not our forefathers devised means of circumventing them without openly questioning them . Our progress has been made , 88 XII XIII.
... shown later on , the beatitudes would have wiped us from the face of the earth centuries ago had not our forefathers devised means of circumventing them without openly questioning them . Our progress has been made , 88 XII XIII.
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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.