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“Begin with an individual, and before you know it you find that you have created a type; begin with a type, and you find that you have created — nothing. That is because we are all queer fish, queerer behind our faces and voices than we want any one to know or than we know ourselves. When I hear a man proclaiming himself an “average, honest, open fellow,” I feel pretty sure that he has some definite and perhaps terrible abnormality which he has agreed to conceal — and his protestation of being average and honest and open is his way of reminding himself of his misprision.”

All the Sad Young Men, F. Scott Fitzgerald

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“Where other animals walk on all fours and look to the ground, [85] man was given a towering head and commanded to stand erect, with his face uplifted to gaze on the stars of heaven.”

— Metamorphoses, Ovid

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“One day, Prosérpina, Ceres’ daughter, was there in the woodland, happily plucking bunches of violets or pure white lilies, filling the folds of her dress or her basket in girlish excitement, vying to pick more flowers than her friends – when Pluto espied her, no sooner espied than he loved her and swept her away, so impatient is passion.”

“CALLIOPE’S SONG: THE RAPE OF PROSERPINA” Ovid’s Metamorphoses

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[…] our body is, after all, only a society constructed out of many souls –. L’effet c’est moi: what happens here is what happens in every well-constructed and happy community: the ruling class identifies itself with the successes of the community. All willing is simply a matter of commanding and obeying, on the groundwork, as I have said, of a society constructed out of many “souls”: from which a philosopher should claim the right to understand willing itself within the framework of morality: morality understood as a doctrine of the power relations under which the phenomenon of “life” arises. –

Beyond Good and Evil, Friedrich Nietzsche

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Beyond Good and Evil, Friedrich Nietzsche

#beyond good and evil #friedrich nietzsche #nietzsche #self #I #freedom of will #freedom #resistance #souls #obedience #command

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What is called “freedom of the will” is essentially the affect of superiority with respect to something that must obey: “I am free, ‘it’ must obey”

Beyond Good and Evil, Friedrich Nietzsche

I will not stop emphasizing a tiny little fact that these superstitious men are loath to admit: that a thought comes when “it” wants, and not when “I” want. It is, therefore, a falsification of the facts to say that the subject “I” is the condition of the predicate “think.”

Beyond Good and Evil, Friedrich Nietzsche

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I will not stop emphasizing a tiny little fact that these superstitious men are loath to admit: that a thought comes when “it” wants, and not when “I” want. It is, therefore, a falsification of the facts to say that the subject “I” is the condition of the predicate “think.”

Beyond Good and Evil, Friedrich Nietzsche

#beyond good and evil #friedrich nietzsche #nietzsche #thought #self #I think #falsification

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“What gives me the right to speak about an I, and, for that matter, about an I as cause, and, finally, about an I as the cause of thoughts?”

Beyond Good and Evil, Friedrich Nietzsche

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“[…] Enough: this ‘I think’ presupposes that I compare my present state with other states that I have seen in myself, in order to determine what it is: and because of this retro- spective comparison with other types of ‘knowing,’ this present state has absolutely no ‘immediate certainty’ for me.”

Beyond Good and Evil, Friedrich Nietzsche

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“What is plain, what “explains”? Only what can be seen and felt, – this is as far as any problem has to be pursued. Conversely: the strong attraction of the Platonic way of thinking consisted in its opposition to precisely this empiricism. It was a noble way of thinking, suitable perhaps for people who enjoyed even stronger and more discriminating senses than our contemporaries, but who knew how to find a higher triumph in staying master over these senses. And they did this by throwing drab, cold, gray nets of concepts over the brightly colored whirlwind of the senses – the rabble of the senses, as Plato said. There was a type of enjoyment in overpowering and interpreting the world in the manner of Plato, different from the enjoyment offered by today’s physicists, or by the Darwinians and anti- teleologists who work in physiology, with their principle of the “smallest possible force” and greatest possible stupidity. “Where man has nothing more to see and grasp, he has nothing more to do” – this imperative is certainly different from the Platonic one, but for a sturdy, industrious race of machinists and bridge-builders of the future, people with tough work to do, it just might be the right imperative for the job.”

Beyond Good and Evil, Friedrich Nietzsche

#beyond good and evil #friedrich nietzsche #nietzsche #charles darwin #Darwinism #Plato #platonic

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“Now it is beginning to dawn on maybe five or six brains that physics too is only an interpretation and arrangement of the world (according to ourselves! if I may say so) and not an explanation of the world.”

Beyond Good and Evil, Friedrich Nietzsche

#beyond good and evil #friedrich nietzsche #nietzsche #physics #interpretation #arrangement

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“Physiologists should think twice before positioning the drive for self- preservation as the cardinal drive of an organic being. Above all, a living thing wants to discharge its strength – life itself is will to power”

Beyond Good and Evil, Friedrich Nietzsche

#beyond good and evil #friedrich nietzsche #nietzsche #power #will to power #meaning #self preservation #meaning of life

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“Enough, we grew up, – the dream faded away.”

Beyond Good and Evil, Friedrich Nietzsche

#beyond good and evil #friedrich nietzsche #nietzsche #growing up #dreams #german philosophy

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“Go ahead and laugh. He is a crow dressed as a cormorant.”

The Flowers of Buffoonery, Osamu Dazai

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“So you want to live ‘according to nature?’ Oh, you noble Stoics, what a fraud is in this phrase! Imagine something like nature, profligate without measure, indifferent without measure, without purpose and regard, without mercy and justice, fertile and barren and uncertain at the same time, think of indifference itself as power – how could you live according to this indifference? Living – isn’t that wanting specifically to be something other than this nature? Isn’t living assessing, preferring, being unfair, being limited, wanting to be different?”

Beyond Good and Evil, Friedrich Nietzsche

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“And we are fundamentally inclined to claim that the falsest judgments (which include synthetic judgments a priori) are the most indispensable to us, and that without ac- cepting the fictions of logic, without measuring reality against the wholly invented world of the unconditioned and self-identical, without a constant falsification of the world through numbers, people could not live – that a renunciation of false judgments would be a renunciation of life, a negation of life. To acknowledge untruth as a condition of life: this clearly means resisting the usual value feelings in a dangerous manner; and a philosophy that risks such a thing would by that gesture alone place itself beyond good and evil.”

Beyond Good and Evil, Friedrich Nietzsche

#beyond good and evil #friedrich nietzsche #nietzsche #philosophy #reality #truth #untruth #judgement #evil #good vs evil

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“How it delights him, suffering, to sit still, to exercise patience, to lie in the sun!”

Human, All Too Human; Friedrich Nietzsche

#human all too human #friedrich nietzsche #nietzsche #suffering #patience #sun #sunlight