viernes, 14 de diciembre de 2007

Das fragment an sich.

Friedrich Nietzsche mastered the art of aphorism and knew it when he wrote: "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what everybody else says in a book - what everybody else does not say in a book".
So, and in praise of the fragments in theirselves, let me give you some of my favorite Nietzschean quotes:

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.
The Dawn.

Only by forgetting that he himself is an artistically creating subject, does man live with any response, security, and consistency...
On truth and lies in a Nonmoral sense.

Between two absolutely different spheres, as between subject and object, there is no casuality, no correctness, and no expression; there is, at most, an aesthetic relation.
On truth and lies in a Nonmoral sense.

No one talks more passionately about his rights than he who in the depths of his soul doubts whether he has any.
Human, all too human.

What does your conscience say? "You should become the person you are".
The Gay Science.

Without art we would be nothing but foreground and live entirely in the spell of that perspective which makes what is closest at hand most vulgar and appear as if it were vast, and reality itself.
The Gay Science.

Thoughts are always the shadows of our feelings: always darker, emptier, simpler.
The Gay Science.

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

The secret for harvesting from existence the greatest fruitfulness and great enjoyment is to live dangerously.
The Gay Science.

I tell you: One must have chaos in one, to give birth to a dancing star.
Thus spoke Zarathustra.

I should only believe in a God that would know how to dance.
Thus spoke Zarathustra.

It is the stillest words that guide the world.
Thus spoke Zarathustra.

When power becomes gracious and descends into the visible, such descent I call beauty. And there is nobody from whom I want beauty as much as from you who are powerful: Let your kindness be your final self-conquest.
Thus spoke Zarathustra.

The noble soul has reverence for itself.
Beyond good and evil.

If you still experience the stars as something "over you", you still don't have the eyes of a knower.
Beyond good and evil.

What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil.
Beyond good and evil.

The sick are the greatest danger for the healthy; it is not from the strongest that harm comes to the strong, but from the weakest.
On the Genealogy of Morality.

While every noble morality develops from a triumphant affirmation of itself, slave morality from the outset says "No!" to what is "outside", what is "different", what is "not itself"; and this No is its creative deed.
On the Genealogy of Morality.

Without music, life would be a mistake.
Twilight of the Idols.

Christianity is metaphysics for the hanged man.
Twilight of the Idols.

What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power in man, the will to power, the power itself. What is bad? All that is born of weakness. What is happiness? The feeling that power is growing, that resistance is overcome.
The Antichrist.

In Christianity neither religion nor morality come into contact with reality at any point.
The Antichrist.

The very word "Christianity" is a misunderstanding. In truth, there was only one Christian, and he died on the cross.
The Antichrist.

"Faith" means not wanting to know what is true.
The Antichrist.

One must pay dearly for immortality: one has to die several times while still alive.
Ecce Homo.

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

Liberalism is the transformation of mankind into cattle.

We have art in order not to die of the truth.





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