The Philosophy of Friedrich NietzscheLuce, 1908 - 325 pages |
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... evident , and undoubtedly made him acquainted with the English naturalists who had sprung up as spores of Darwin , and with a number of great Frenchmen - Montaigne , La- rochefoucauld , La Bruyère , Fontenelle , Vauvenargues and ...
... evident , and undoubtedly made him acquainted with the English naturalists who had sprung up as spores of Darwin , and with a number of great Frenchmen - Montaigne , La- rochefoucauld , La Bruyère , Fontenelle , Vauvenargues and ...
Page 82
... evident that the morality of the master class has for its main object the preservation of the authority and kingship of that class , while the morality of the slave class seeks to make slavery as bearable as possible and to exalt and ...
... evident that the morality of the master class has for its main object the preservation of the authority and kingship of that class , while the morality of the slave class seeks to make slavery as bearable as possible and to exalt and ...
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... evident that all morality , as Niet- zsche pointed out , is nothing more than an expression of expediency . A thing is called wrong solely because a definite group of people , at some specific stage of their career , have found it ...
... evident that all morality , as Niet- zsche pointed out , is nothing more than an expression of expediency . A thing is called wrong solely because a definite group of people , at some specific stage of their career , have found it ...
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... evident that the communistic and socialistic forms of government at present in fashion in the world oppose such a consummation as often as they facilitate it . Civiliza- tion , as we know it , makes more paupers than millionaires , 2 ...
... evident that the communistic and socialistic forms of government at present in fashion in the world oppose such a consummation as often as they facilitate it . Civiliza- tion , as we know it , makes more paupers than millionaires , 2 ...
Page 104
... evident , of course , that the feeling of superiority has a complement in the feeling of inferiority . Every man , in other words , sees himself , in respect to some talent possessed in common by himself and a rival , in one of three ...
... evident , of course , that the feeling of superiority has a complement in the feeling of inferiority . Every man , in other words , sees himself , in respect to some talent possessed in common by himself and a rival , in one of three ...
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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.