Nietzsche Quotes Flashcards
Physiological demands
For the preservation of a particular kind of life (ss3)
Man could not
live without accepting logical fictions (ss 4)
Sickly
Hermit (ss 5)
The love of
His wisdom
An unwitting
Memoir (ss6)
Philosophy is this tyrannical drive itself, the
Most spiritual form of the will to power (ss 9)
Superfluous
Teleological principles (ss13)
A series of
Audacious assertions (ss16)
The complex condition of pleasure of
The person who wills, who obeys, and at the same time identifies himself with the executor of the command
The ruling class identifies itself
With the successes of the community as a whole
We alone
Have fabricated causes, succession, reciprocity
This is interpretation
Not text
Not destined
For knowledge
Surface and skin, which
Like all skin, reveals something, but hides even more
There would be no life
At all if not on the basis of perspectivist assessments and appearances
He seeks the truth
Only so as to do the good
Everything deep
Loves a mask
To be a good philosopher
One must be dry, clear, free of illusions
Anything that is common
Never has much value
True philosophers
Are commanders and lawgivers
Behind all logic, too
There are value judgements
Symbol
World
Surface and
Skin which, like all skin, reveals something, but hides even more
A new
Human greatness
The spell of certain
Physiological functions is the spell of physiological value judgements
Tremendous
Counterforces have to be called upon
Life itself in its essence
Means appropriating, injuring, overpowering
A people
Is a detour made by nature to arrive at six or seven great men
The strength of a person would …
Be measured by how much truth he could tolerate, or … to what extent he needs to have it diluted, disguised, sweetened, muted, falsified.
Living rapturously
Contrary to nature
He can traverse
The range of values … And be able to look with many kinds of eyes into every distance
if a higher type of person
Entered a state of ruin and degeneration, he would thereby take on characteristics that would thereafter cause him to be revered as a saint
Everything that raises an individual
above the herd and causes his neighbour to fear him is henceforth called evil
Language continues
To talk of opposites where there are only degrees
The German
Is nearly incapable of the presto in his language
In an insidious way
They are related to those bad, seemingly opposite things
Conscious thinking
Is secretly guided and directed into definite channels by his instincts
Tyranny against
Nature, and against reason
The continual
Self overcoming of the human
People who
Still had a nature that was natural, barbarians in every terrible sense of the word
It’s essence
And highest justification
‘Noble’ and
‘Despicable’
Qualities which serve
To relieve the sufferers existence
The mediocre
Alone have the prospect of continuing, of having descendants
Piety can
Place them within an illusory higher order of things, and thus enable the, to re,aim content with the real order
Asceticism and
Puritanism are the virtually indispensable means to educate and improve a race that wants to overcome its origins in the rabble
One is an artist
Much more than one realises
They are seeking reasons
Sought after the fact to defend a preexisting tenet
We do not object to a judgement because it is false…
The question is … To what extent it furthers life (ss4)
