The tragic artist is no pessimist: he is precisely the one who says Yes to everything questionable, even to the terrible — he is Dionysian. — excerpt Twilight of the Idols by Friedrich Nietzsche, chapt. “Reason” in Philosophy published 1888 Yesterday a friend and I chatted for twenty minutes about the writings of Nietzsche…
In that great fatality called Christianity, Plato represents that ambiguity and fascination, called an ‘ideal,’ which made it possible for the nobler natures of antiquity to misunderstand themselves and to step on the bridge leading to the ‘Cross’… And how much Plato there still is in the concept ‘church,’ in the structure, system, and…
That which is earlier with regard to its rise into dominance becomes manifest to us men only later. That which is primally early shows itself only ultimately to men. Therefore, in the realm of thinking, a painstaking effort to think through still more primally what was primally thought is not the absurd wish to…
Thus we shall never experience our relationship to the essence of technology so long as we merely represent and pursue the technological, put up with it, or evade it. Everywhere we remain unfree and chained to technology, whether we passionately affirm or deny it. But we are delivered over to it in the worst…
…the right to decide what is trueis not independent of the right to decide what is just,even if statement consigned to these two authorities differ in nature.The point is there is a strict interlinkagebetween the kind of language called science and the kind called ethics and politics:they both stem from the same perspective, the…
It is society, our tame, mediocre, gelded society, in which a natural human being, who comes from the mountains or from the adventures of the sea, necessarily degenerates into a criminal. — excerpt Twilight of the Idols, Skirmishes of an Untimely Man, by Friedrich Nietzsche p. 110 Another day, a predictable concatenation of events,…
38. My conception of freedom.— The value of a thing sometimes does not lie in that which one attains by it, but in what one pays for it — what it costs us. I shall give an example. Liberal institutions cease to be liberal as soon as they are attained: later on, there are…
We are constantly making judgments, what we like and what we dislike. These moments are hardly thought about. Years have passed, we’ve journeyed far down our road of evaluative exploration. As a reflex we simply respond to a visual impression, a scent, a taste, or to an idea either in sophisticated, nuanced, oblique approval…
7. Moral code for psychologists —- Never observe for the sake of observing!That gives a false perspective, a squint and something forced and exaggerated. A born psychologist guards instinctively against seeing in order to see;the same is true of the born painter. He never works “from nature”;he leaves it to his instinct, to his…
The Balrog reached the bridge. Gandalf stood in the middle of the span, leaning on the staff in his left hand, but in his other hand Glamdring gleamed, cold and white. His enemy halted again, facing him, and the shadow about it reached out like two vast wings. It raised the whip, and the…
