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The Will To Power

Represents a selection from Nietzche's notebooks to find out what he wrote on nihilism, art, morality, religion, and the theory of knowledge, among others.

(17 total)

“I rebel against the translation of reality into a morality: therefore I abhor Christianity with a deadly hatred.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche, amazon.com

Tagged: Religion

“Ultimately, it is the desire, not the desired, that we love.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche, goodreads.com

“Of what is great one must either be silent or speak with greatness.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche, amazon.com

Tagged: first lines of books

“An educator never says what he himself thinks, but always only what he thinks of a thing in relation to the requirements of those he educates.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche, amazon.com

Tagged: Education, Truth In A Passing Contextual Moment, Relationalism

“On this road lies the future of the highest men: to bear the greatest responsibility and not collapse under it.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche, amazon.com

Tagged: Responsibility, Weight, Extreme Politics, Extremism

“I find it tasteless to be familiar.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche, amazon.com

Tagged: Ethics of Explosion, A Thousand Ethics

“I wish men would begin by respecting themselves: everything else follows from that.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche, amazon.com

Tagged: The Power of Ego, Thought Catalog or Nietzsche?, Your Value

“1. Do you want to be more multifarious or simpler? 2. Do you want to become happier or more indifferent to happiness and unhappiness? 3. Do you want to become more contented with oneself or more exacting and inexorable? 4. Do you want to become softer, more yielding, more human, or more inhuman? 5.…”

— Friedrich Nietzsche, amazon.com

“It is mythology to think that forces obey laws.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche, amazon.com

Tagged: The Biggest Picture, God Lives

“My purpose: to demonstrate the absolute oppressiveness of all events and the application of moral distinctions as conditioned by perspective; to demonstrate how everything praised as moral is identical in essence with everything immoral and was made possible, as in every development of morality, wit…”

— Friedrich Nietzsche, amazon.com

Tagged: Perspectivism, Part and Parcel, Logic Against Logic

“All ideals are dangerous: because they debase and brand the actual; all are poisons, but indispensable as temporary cures.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche, amazon.com

Tagged: Idealism, Ambition Is Poison, The Power of Now

“Christianity is still possible at any time. It is not tied to any dogma. It requires neither the doctrine of a personal God, nor that of sin, nor that of immortality, nor that of redemption, nor that of faith. Christianity is a way of life, not a system of beliefs. It tell us how to act, not what we…”

— Friedrich Nietzsche, amazon.com

Tagged: God Is Still Here (Not Dead), Secularized Theology, Secular Theology

“Here is a little ideal I stumble upon once every five weeks on a wild and lonely walk, in an azure moment of sinful happiness. To spend one’s life amid delicate and absurd things; a stranger to reality; half an artist, half a bird and metaphysician; with no care for reality.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche, amazon.com

Tagged: My Idea Of A Vacation, Azure

“The aim is lacking; 'why?' finds no answer.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche, amazon.com

Tagged: Groundless Ground, Nihilism, Teleology

“A declaration of war on the masses by higher men is needed! A doctrine is needed powerful enough to work as a breeding agent: strengthening the strong, paralyzing and destructive for the world-weary. The annihilation of the decaying races... Dominion over the earth as a means of producing the higher…”

— Friedrich Nietzsche, amazon.com

Tagged: Elitism, Evil, War

“The new philosopher can arise only in conjunction with a ruling caste, as its highest spiritualization. Great politics, rule over the earth, are at hand.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche, amazon.com

Tagged: Great Politics, Theory and Practice, Theory And Praxis

“The concept of 'reprehensible action' presents us with some difficult. Nothing in all that happens can be reprehensible in itself: one not dare to eliminate it completely for everything is so bound up with everything else, that to exclude one part would mean to exclude the whole. A reprehensible act…”

— Friedrich Nietzsche, amazon.com

Tagged: Ethics, Vicious Circle, Part and Parcel, Connectionism, No Evil And No Good