Friedrich Nietzsche
Saturday, 14 December 2024
In 1880, the third part of Human, All Too Human was released - 'The Wanderer and His Shadow' (Der Wanderer und sein Schatten
The persecutor of God. -- Paul thought up the idea and Calvin rethought it, that for innumerable people damnation has been decreed from eternity, and that this beautiful world plan was instituted to reveal the glory of God: heaven and hell and humanity are thus supposed to exist - to satisfy the vanity of God! What cruel and insatiable vanity must have flared in the soul of the man who thought this up first, or second. Paul has remained Saul after all - the persecutor of God.
The Wanderer and his Shadow
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Socrates. - If all goes well, the time will come when one will take up the memorabilia of Socrates rather than the Bible as a guide to morals and reason... The pathways of the most various philosophical modes of life lead back to him... Socrates excels the founder of Christianity in being able to be serious cheerfully and in possessing that wisdom full of roguishness that constitutes the finest state of the human soul. And he also possessed the finer intellect.
The Wanderer and his Shadow, s. 86
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Linguistic danger to spiritual freedom.-- Every word is a prejudice.
The Wanderer and his Shadow,s. 55
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Remorse.-- Never yield to remorse, but at once tell yourself: remorse would simply mean adding to the first act of stupidity a second.
The Wanderer and his Shadow,s. 323
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The most dangerous follower. - The most dangerous follower is he whose defection would destroy the whole party: that is to say, the best follower.
The Wanderer and his Shadow,s. 290
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Hundred-year quarantine. - Democratic institutions are quarantine arrangements to combat that ancient pestilence, lust for tyranny: as such they are very useful and very boring.
The Wanderer and his Shadow,s. 289
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A little health now and again is the ailing person's best remedy.
The Wanderer and His Shadow
Nietzsche Quotes
If all goes well, the time will come when one will take up the memorabilia of Socrates rather than the Bible as a guide to morals and reason... The pathways of the most various philosophical modes of life lead back to him... Socrates excels the founder of Christianity in being able to be serious cheerfully and in possessing that wisdom full of roguishness that constitutes the finest state of the human soul. And he also possessed the finer intellect.
The Wanderer and his Shadow
Nietzsche Quotes
Paul thought up the idea and Calvin rethought it, that for innumerable people damnation has been decreed from eternity, and that this beautiful world plan was instituted to reveal the glory of God: heaven and hell and humanity are thus supposed to exist - to satisfy the vanity of God! What cruel and insatiable vanity must have flared in the soul of the man who thought this up first, or second. Paul has remained Saul after all - the persecutor of God.
The Wanderer and his Shadow
Nietzsche Quotes
Friedrich Nietzsche Quote of the Day
Saturday, 14 December 2024The goal of mankind cannot lie in its end, but in its highest specimens.Thoughts Out of Season, Part II, Section 9
