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Friedrich Nietzsche

The Joyful Wisdom

  • Elena Berchas quoted9 months ago
    divined that behind the destroyer is the creator, and behind the blasphemer the lover of life. In the retrospective
  • Ирина Осипенкоhas quoted3 years ago
    The people venerate an entirely different type of man when on their part they form the ideal of a "sage," and they are a thousand times justified in rendering homage with the highest eulogies and honours to precisely that type of men—namely, the gentle, serious, simple, chaste, priestly natures and those related to them,—it is to them that the praise falls due in the popular veneration of wisdom.
  • Ирина Осипенкоhas quoted3 years ago
    The talent for classifications, for tables of categories, betrays something; it is not for nothing that a person is the child of his parents.
  • Ирина Осипенкоhas quoted3 years ago
    If one has trained one's glance to some extent to recognise in a learned book or scientific treatise the intellectual idiosyncrasy of the learned man—all of them have such idiosyncrasy,—and if we take it by surprise, we shall almost always get a glimpse behind it of the "antecedent history" of the learned man and his family, especially of the nature of their callings and occupations.
  • Ирина Осипенкоhas quoted3 years ago
    Most people in old Europe, as it seems to me, still need Christianity at present, and on that account it still finds belief.
  • Ирина Осипенкоhas quoted3 years ago
    We have become saturated with the conviction (and have grown cold and hard in it) that things are not at all divinely ordered in this world, nor even according to human standards do they go on rationally, mercifully, or justly: we know the fact that the world in which we live is ungodly, immoral, and "inhuman,"—we have far too long interpreted it to ourselves falsely and mendaciously, according to the wish and will of our veneration, that is to say, according to our need.
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