FRIEDRICH NIETZCHE's Words

[dead_soul]

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

Faith: not wanting to know what is true.

In heaven, all the interesting people are missing.

Is man one of God's blunders? Or is God one of man's blunders?

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation.

The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.

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

The word "Christianity" is already a misunderstanding - in reality there has been only one Christian, and he died on the Cross.

There are no facts, only interpretations.

When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.

You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.

[dead_soul]

Nietzsche on Good and Evil

by Friedrich Nietzsche, Excerpts from 'First Essay: Good and Evil, Good and Bad', §§ 10,11,13, Published 1887

Excerpts translated by the Boston Consulting Group

Images used by courtesy of the Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin
Excerpts from On the Genealogy of Morals (Zur Genealogie der Moral)

Summary
We know the difference between good and evil. Indeed, this distinction is probably at the core of our moral values. But what is the origin of this system of values? Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900), German philosopher and one of the most acerbic critics of European society and culture, addresses this question in his work On the Genealogy of Morals.
Judaeo-Christian values, he says, gained dominance by means of a slave revolt in morality. This was a profound inversion of earlier, noble morality that valued strength, pride, self-affirmation, and the arbitrary exercise of power as characteristic of the good person. In contrast, the weak, the humble, the slave was considered pitiable and bad. The moral revolution consisted in the overturning of this system so that the noble virtues are considered evil, while the slaves condition meekness, humility, weakness are considered virtues. Thus, the old morality of good and bad is replaced by the inverted system of good and evil. Nietzsche claims that our modern virtues thus grew up initially out of a desire for vengeance and power over former oppressors.
The slave revolt in morality
The slave revolt in morality begins when ressentiment itself becomes creative and gives birth to values: ressentiment of those beings denied the real reaction, that of the deed, and can only compensate for it by means of imaginary revenge. While all noble morality grows out of a triumphant saying Yes to oneself, from the very beginning slave morality says No to what is "outside," what is "other," what is "not self": and that No is its creative deed. This reversal of the value-positing gaze - this necessary direction outward instead of back toward oneself - is an essential part of ressentiment: in order to come about, slave morality always first needs a counterworld, an outside world; in physiological terms, it needs external stimuli if it is to act at all - its action is, from the very root, reaction. (...)
While the noble human being lives with confidence and openness toward himself ("gennaios," or "noble-born," emphasizes the nuance of "frank" and probably also "naïve"), the man of ressentiment is neither frank, nor naïve, nor honest and straightforward with himself. His soul squints; his mind loves nooks and crannies, crooked paths, back doors, everything hidden strikes him as being his world, his security, his balm; he knows how to be silent, how not to forget, how to wait, how to make himself small, humble himself for the time being. (...)
Good and evil, good and bad
In contrast, imagine "the enemy" as the man of ressentiment conceives of him - and this precisely is his deed, his creation: he has conceived of "the evil enemy," "the evil one," and done so as a fundamental concept on the basis of which, as an afterimage and counterpoint, he now thinks up a "good one" - himself!
Exactly the reverse, then, of the case with the noble man, who conceives of the fundamental concept "good" primarily and spontaneously, drawing on himself, and only on the basis of that "good" creates for himself a notion of "bad"! The "bad" of noble origin and the "evil" born from the cauldron of unsatiated hate - the former an after-creation, a marginal matter, a complementary color; the latter the original, the beginning, the real deed in the conception of a slave morality - how different are those two words "bad" and "evil," seemingly both opposites of the same concept, "good"! But in fact it's not the same "good": instead, ask yourself who is actually "evil" in the sense of the morality of ressentiment. The answer, in all strictness, is the very man that the other morality calls "good," the very man who is noble, powerful, the ruler, but differently interpreted, differently tinted, differently viewed, through the venomous eye of ressentiment. (...)
The triumph of weakness
(...) That lambs resent the great birds of prey is nothing strange, but it's no reason to rail against the great birds of prey if they snatch themselves little lambs. And if the lambs say to each other: "These birds of prey are evil; and whoever is as unlike a bird of prey as it's possible to be - more like its opposite, a lamb - surely he is good?", then there are no objections to their setting up this ideal, even if the birds of prey do mock a little and perhaps say to each other: "We don't resent those dear lambs at all, in fact we love them: nothing's tastier than a tender little lamb."
To demand of strength that it not express itself as strength, that it not be a wanting-to-overwhelm, a wanting-to-defeat, a wanting-to-master, a thirst for enemies and resistances and triumphs, is quite as absurd as demanding of weakness that it express itself as strength.
(...) Is it any surprise if the emotions of revenge and hate, having retreated to smolder underground, exploit this belief for themselves, and at bottom maintain no belief more ardently than the belief that the strong human being is free to be weak and the bird of prey to be a lamb? After all, this is how they gain the right to hold the bird of prey responsible for being a bird of prey... When out of the vengeful cunning of powerlessness the oppressed, the downtrodden, the violated tell themselves: "Let's be different from the evil ones, let's be good! And everyone is good who doesn't violate, who doesn't attack, who doesn't avenge, who injures no-one, who leaves vengeance to God, who keeps hidden as we do, who avoids all evil and doesn't ask much of life - like us, the patient ones, the humble, the righteous" - then that, considered coldly and without prejudice, really means nothing other than: "So we weak ones are weak; it is good if we do nothing for which we are not strong enough." But thanks to the counterfeiting and self-deception of powerlessness, this harsh fact, this prudence of the lowest kind, which even insects have (playing dead when danger threatens, so as not to do "too much"), has clothed itself in the finery of resigned, quiet, patient virtue, as if the weak man's weakness itself - that is, his being, his action, his whole, single, inevitable, undetachable reality - were something done voluntarily, something willed, chosen, a deed, something to his credit. (...)

870 words
• Advantage can be gained by changing the rules - a disadvantaged competitor may be able to reverse a situation by inventing and enforcing new competitive conditions
• The current function of a thing may not reflect its origins - we cannot always deduce the original intent or purpose of an idea or artifact from observations of its present us
• Language is a powerful tool - concepts become real only when they can be articulated in language, and advantage comes from controlling the terms of debate
Keywords:
Philosophy, slave revolt, morality, good, bad, evil, noble, revenge, revolution, strength, virtue, inversion, language, myth

[shoeless_rebel]

basically nietzche is anti-teleology...

correct me if i'm wrong, he basically fathered nihilism and indirectly spawned anarchism. i dunno if he influenced bakunin or not but i'm a big fan of nietzche and his uberman theory.

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[rlenernel1]

What makes Nietzsche so famous? Nihilism??what does it say?what is it?

[reclamador]

tan aw nako usik lang ni sa panahon ... si nietzche ...

[spec_tot101]

Found on Neitzche's tomb:

God is dead - Nietzsche
Nietzsche is dead - God

[Parnaso]

what is your intention? thread starter?