God is dead! God remains dead! And we have killed him. The Gay Science (1882). Sec. 125 Nietzsche Quotes The God that Paul invented for himself, a God who "reduced to absurdity" "the wisdom of this world" (especially the two great enemies of superstition, philology and medicine), is...
God is dead! God remains dead! And we have killed him. The Gay Science (1882). Sec. 125 Nietzsche Quotes Morality is herd instinct in the individual. The Gay Science (1882). Sec. 116 Nietzsche Quotes The greatest danger that always hovered over humanity and still hovers over it is the...
Nietzsche is quoted as saying "Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you." Another famous quote is: "God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him...
“God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives: who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for...
“to punish himself, to pardon himself,” so that “you will no longer have any need of your god, and the whole drama of Fall and Redemption will be played out to the end in you yourself.”[21]The Yeatsian Self, spurning Soul’s ultimate doctrinal declaratio...
This will be the third and final post in my “Faithful Nietzsche” series. To recap, the first post appropriated Nietzsche’s concept of the Übermensch by attacking our own tendency to burden the living prophets with the weight of the dead by ignoring
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Because of his logos, Socrates is the impetus for Alcibiades’ self-contempt, which makes him an object of hatred but also of strong affection. In the following depiction, this affection is used by Socrates for a second, sharper shaming, when, in his dead passivity, he refuses to return th...