Wisdom of Neitzsche

When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.

Faith: not wanting to know what is true.

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

There are various eyes. Even the Sphinx has eyes: and as a result there are various truths, and as a result there is no truth.

Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day.

Those who cannot understand how to put their thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of debate.

A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.

No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant.

There are horrible people who, instead of solving a problem, tangle it up and make it harder to solve for anyone who wants to deal with it. Whoever does not know how to hit the nail on the head should be asked not to hit it at all.

I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.

What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal.

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.

Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.

We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.

One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

There are no facts, only interpretations.

When one has not had a good father, one must create one.

The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.

The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception.

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Tariki

From Sue Prideaux's biography of Nietzsche, "I Am Dynamite":-

Instead of emphasizing a kind of human essence which all human beings share and which must be actualized (and from which one might derive ethical standards), Nietzsche stresses the uniqueness of each individual, almost as if each of us is a species unto ourselves. Accordingly, the conditions for flourishing and self-actualization will vary widely from one person to the next.This in turn means that individuals cannot rely unthinkingly on their own socialization or inherited traditions in order to determine how best to actualize their own potential, since the customs and traditions in question are not sufficiently tailored to the individual case. Consequently, the discovery of the means to self-actualization must be left to the individual’s own experimentation.

And:-

One must be fleet of foot; one must dance. Life was not simple. If, one day, man would dare construct an architecture corresponding to the nature of the soul, that architect would have to take the labyrinth as the model. To give birth to a dancing star, one must first have chaos within. Inconsistency, changes of mind and urges to wander were a duty. A fixed opinion was a dead opinion, a made-up mind was a dead mind, worth less than an insect; it should be crushed underfoot and utterly destroyed.

Nietzsche called the priest, philosophers and theologians "cobweb weavers" and distrusted systematisers and avoided them. "The will to a system is a lack of integrity"

When Christ faced Pilate and spoke of "truth" Pilate asked:- "What is truth?"

The truth was staring him in the face. A living human being. Not a doctrine or a formula. As I see it, far too many Christians miss the point entirely and turn the Living Word into a formula of "salvation" - simply follow the instructions and "fulfill" them, according to their own judgement and satisfaction, and all will be well.

Then they claim to be sole possessors of "truth" and dictate to the spirit exactly where it blows. Yet in fact it blows where it will like the wind.

Elevatorpitches · F

@Tariki no cobweb weavers allowed here for sure💅

Tariki

@Elevatorpitches I think they are allowed...😀

Maybe we each have to judge just who they are. On another thread someone said there should be more "interesting shit" posted (being a fine upstanding English gentleman I would never use such a phrase....😎 ) But I suggested that what is interesting to some is not so to others.

Post whatever. Being poetical (!) the wind will sift the wheat from the chaff.

Elevatorpitches · F

@Tariki its a blab school and too many flies get caught in the webs and I saw that movie already

help me!🤣