The Philosophy of Friedrich NietzscheLuce, 1908 - 325 pages |
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... 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 which means some- thing whose inviolability is accepted without inquiry or the shadow ...
... 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 which means some- thing whose inviolability is accepted without inquiry or the shadow ...
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... sharing of a delight- ful meal . Your German school - master is commonly a martinet , and his birch is never idle , but he has the saving grace of loving his trade and of readily recognizing true ΙΟ FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE.
... sharing of a delight- ful meal . Your German school - master is commonly a martinet , and his birch is never idle , but he has the saving grace of loving his trade and of readily recognizing true ΙΟ FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE.
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Henry Louis Mencken. grace of loving his trade and of readily recognizing true diligence in his pupils . History does not record the name of the pedagogue who taught Nietzsche at the Naumburg gymnasium , but he must have been one who ill ...
Henry Louis Mencken. grace of loving his trade and of readily recognizing true diligence in his pupils . History does not record the name of the pedagogue who taught Nietzsche at the Naumburg gymnasium , but he must have been one who ill ...
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... true happi- ness would be impossible until mankind had killed will with will , which is to say , until the will - to - live was willed out of existence . Therefore the happiest man was the one who had come nearest this end - the man who ...
... true happi- ness would be impossible until mankind had killed will with will , which is to say , until the will - to - live was willed out of existence . Therefore the happiest man was the one who had come nearest this end - the man who ...
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... true of those expressions of " governments , public opinion and majorities " which historians were prone to accentuate . To Nietzsche the ideas and doings of peoples seemed infinitely less important than the ideas and doings of 1 ...
... true of those expressions of " governments , public opinion and majorities " which historians were prone to accentuate . To Nietzsche the ideas and doings of peoples seemed infinitely less important than the ideas and doings of 1 ...
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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.