I am on a serious Nietzsche kick....
Yes I watched "Little Miss Sunshine" and that just deepened my interest in Nietzsche. A lot of really great philosophy from a man maybe as crazy as me. Some favorite quotes:
“One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.”
“If you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.”
“Is man one of God's blunders? Or is God one of man's blunders?”
“A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.”
“Belief means not wanting to know what is true”
“What if a demon were to creep after you one night, in your loneliest loneliness, and say, 'This life which you live must be lived by you once again and innumerable times more; and every pain and joy and thought and sigh must come again to you, all in the same sequence. The eternal hourglass will again and again be turned and you with it, dust of the dust!' Would you throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse that demon? Or would you answer, 'Never have I heard anything more divine'?”
“Christianity makes suffering contagious”
“Hope in reality is the worst of all evils, because it prolongs the torments of man”
“Gods too decompose. God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him.”
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On January 3, 1889, Nietzsche had a mental collapse. That day two Turinese policemen approached him after he caused a public disturbance in the streets of Turin. What actually happened remains unknown. The often-repeated tale states that Nietzsche witnessed the whipping of a horse at the other end of the Piazza Carlo Alberto, ran to the horse, threw his arms up around the horse’s neck to protect it, and collapsed to the ground.
“One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.”
“If you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.”
“Is man one of God's blunders? Or is God one of man's blunders?”
“A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.”
“Belief means not wanting to know what is true”
“What if a demon were to creep after you one night, in your loneliest loneliness, and say, 'This life which you live must be lived by you once again and innumerable times more; and every pain and joy and thought and sigh must come again to you, all in the same sequence. The eternal hourglass will again and again be turned and you with it, dust of the dust!' Would you throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse that demon? Or would you answer, 'Never have I heard anything more divine'?”
“Christianity makes suffering contagious”
“Hope in reality is the worst of all evils, because it prolongs the torments of man”
“Gods too decompose. God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him.”
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On January 3, 1889, Nietzsche had a mental collapse. That day two Turinese policemen approached him after he caused a public disturbance in the streets of Turin. What actually happened remains unknown. The often-repeated tale states that Nietzsche witnessed the whipping of a horse at the other end of the Piazza Carlo Alberto, ran to the horse, threw his arms up around the horse’s neck to protect it, and collapsed to the ground.