Showing posts with label nietzsche. Show all posts
Showing posts with label nietzsche. Show all posts

Sunday, July 5, 2026

Wednesday, June 17, 2020

beatz


"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music."
- Friedrich Nietzsche [1844-1900]

Tuesday, September 3, 2019

god is dead



“Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.”
Friedrich Nietzsche [1844 - 1900]

Sunday, September 9, 2018

high-octane


"He who has a Why to live, can bear with almost any How."
- Nietzsche

Friday, April 20, 2018

those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.


“Beware that, when fighting monsters, you yourself do not become a monster... for when you gaze long into the abyss. The abyss gazes also into you.”
- Friedrich Nietzsche

Friday, February 19, 2016

unbidden mirth


"God is a comedian performing before an audience that is afraid to laugh."
- Friedrich Nietzsche

An earlier reference to comedy and church here.

Friday, January 29, 2016

not funny


"... laughing is a bad infirmity of human nature, which every thinking mind will strive to overcome."
- Attributed to Thomas Hobbes by Friedrich Nietzsche, Basic Writings of Nietzsche, p. 421

Sunday, March 4, 2012


"The spirit now wills his own will, and he who had been lost to the world now conquers the world."
- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

Tuesday, June 22, 2010

A Book For All And None


... we must become a camel (drinking up everything) before we can become a lion, and properly rebel against the strictures of society.
- Paraphrase of Nietzsche in Thus Spake Zarathustra

Image source here.

Saturday, December 12, 2009

obedience in the same direction


The essential thing "in heaven and earth" is, apparently [to repeat it once more], that there should be OBEDIENCE in the same direction, there thereby results, and has always resulted in the long run, something which has made life worth living; for instance, virtue, art, music, dancing, reason, spirituality -- anything whatever that is transfiguring, refined, foolish, or divine.

Sunday, April 12, 2009

wound seriously


"That which does not kill us makes us stronger."
- Friedrich Nietzsche

but

That which does not kill us can also leave us maimed and ruined for life.

An earlier reference to Nietzsche here.

Tuesday, October 14, 2008

Alfredo


"A man without a plan is not a man. Nietzsche."
- Al Pacino [born 1940] quoting his character Alphonse "Big Boy" Caprice in the 1990 movie Dick Tracy.

An earlier reference to Nietzsche here.

Sunday, October 5, 2008

monsters


"Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And when you look into the abyss, the abyss also looks into you."
- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche [1844-1900]