@highiqgf
'From the physiological standpoint, everything ugly weakens and depresses man. It reminds him of decay, danger, impotence ; he literally loses strength in its presence. The effect of ugliness may be gauged by the dynamometer. Whenever man’s spirits are downcast, it is a sign that
@CosmicSkeptic
Completely antithetical to "there is neither male nor female." It's in all probability a product of the gnostic view that matter is evil and the spiritual realm good. Traditionally, spirit is masculine and matter is feminine, and as a result you get this passage.
@AncestralVril
A sense of gratitude is absent in savages.
“Ingratitude is always a kind of weakness. I have never known men of ability to be ungrateful.”
-Goethe
@AncestralVril
Yeah he worst thing about them is that wherever they arrive, they establish organized groups. If one of them gets into an altercation, a whole gang arrives to aid him in a matter of seconds.
@plethonist
It is interesting how what this guy said stands in contrast with Nietzsche's take that valuing intellectual discourse or dialectics over physical action stems from a need of compensating for a lack of power or "cowardice"
@WeltgeistYT
Some guy in some Wagner documentary said that Wagner's music evokes feelings a person never knew he could feel. That's a really good way of putting it and that's more true of Wagner than any of any other composer. Especially with Parsifal and Tristan I think
@astralflite
Nietzsche on why love is gay:
"Men have on the whole spoken of love with such emphasis and so idolized it because they have had little of it and have never been allowed to eat their fill of this food: thus it became for them 'food of the gods'. Let a poet depict a utopia in which
@introvertsmemes
“What I really need is to get clear about what I must do, not what I must know, except insofar as knowledge must precede every act. What matters is to find a purpose, to see what it really is that God wills that I shall do; the crucial thing is to find a truth which is truth for
@YoungJapanTexts
Even an ugly woman can easily get a good man if she only acts feminine. Feminine behaviour in a woman expunges the disagreeable effect of an ugly appearance.
"No one should be praised for his goodness if he has not strength enough to be wicked. All other goodness is but too often an idleness or powerlessness of will.”
― François de La Rochefoucauld
@TateTheTalisman
There's a book called Juliette written by Marquis de Sade. Napoleon read this book and found it so abhorrent that he had the marquis imprisoned.
A beautiful passage from Augustine's Confessions. The description of God's nature in paradoxes is reminiscent of the Tao in Tao Te Ching.
"Under heaven nothing is more soft and yielding than water.
Yet for attacking the solid and strong, nothing is better;
It has no equal.
The
@Cobratate
"At last reluctantly Gandalf himself took a hand. Picking up a faggot he held it aloft for a moment, and then with a word of command, naur an edraith ammen! he thrust the end of his staff into the midst of it. "
-J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
"He was one of the numerous and varied legion of dullards, of half-animated abortions, conceited, half-educated coxcombs, who attach themselves to the idea most in fashion only to vulgarize it and who caricature every cause they serve, however sincerely.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky
Schopenhauer says that what we call intelligence is the ability to track down the cause of an effect. Following this logic, he claims that a fool is someone who is bad at finding the real cause of an effect, which may lead them to attribute strange happenings to things like
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@latinedisce
Yeah the modern man is certainly too selfish to sacrifice himself for anything greater. Unless a radical and unexpected shift occurs.
@SabreCanine
@AcragasOf
@untimelysalts
Disinterested/unattached action presupposes that there is stable being, which runs counter to Nietzsche's Will to Power.
According to Nietzsche, all impressions of static being are an illusion.
Kant's disinterested contemplation, the idea that observing something beautiful
@The_Hellenist
That is definitely not the case. Early philosophy is always an interpretation of mythology, and mythology is a misinterpretation of natural processes.
@WeltgeistYT
In his notebooks from 1883-84 he says that "feeling is a property of all substance." Also in this passage from the Will to Power he seems to be suggesting that all that exists are subjects interacting with one another and that the material world as we see it is a result of that.
Nietzsche on the importance of studying history:
"Direct self-observation is not nearly sufficient for us to know ourselves: we need history, for the past flows on within us in a hundred waves; indeed, we ourselves are nothing but that which at every moment we experience of this