March 2012
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February 2012
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Is Wagner’s critique of modernity not more applicable today? The answer is a cliché: yes and no, however, such is necessary with sweeping prose. This is no less true of Nietzsche, although in his texts are more robust and certainly provide us with more to digest. While both titanic figures are now more than a century old, it is my contention that their critiques of modern culture addressed a...
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Normally, there is nothing of which we are more certain than the feeling of our...
– Sigmund Freud, “Civilization And Its Discontents”
I enjoy it when you refer to me as large father
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Concerning that which I kill, which I cut up, which I cook, I implicitly affirm...
– Georges Bataille - “Theory of Religion”
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What is good? - All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power,...
– Friedrich Nietzsche, “The Anti-Christ”
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Sins” are indispensable to every society organized on an ecclesiastical...
– Friedrich Nietzsche, “The Anti-Christ”
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It seems that the role of dynamite is to violently blast open, within a given...
– Alenka Zupančič, “The Shortest Shadow: Nietzsche’s Philosophy of the Two”
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I am no man, I am dynamite.
– Friedrich Nietzsche, Ecce Homo
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I know my fate. One day my name will be associated with the memory of something...
– Friedrich Nietzsche, “Ecce Homo - Why I am a Destiny”
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The perfection of what once was has now been deflowered and disemboweled. Man...
– Njiqahdda, “Universal Form Replaced with Despondent Chaos”
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One is tempted to add that the kind of obscurantism he [Nietzsche] abominated...
– Walter Kaufmann, Editor’s Introduction To Nietzsche’s On The Genealogy of Morals
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i can't tell if my nietzschean-lacanian...
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If desire is repressed, it is because every position of desire, no matter how...
– Deleuze and Guattari - Capitalism and Schizophrenia (via funwithautonomy)
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With stronger, more vital thinkers, still thirsty for life, things are...
– Friedrich Nietzsche, “Beyond Good And Evil”
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And if one wanted to do away with the ‘apparent world’ entirely, as...
– Friedrich Nietzsche, “Beyond Good And Evil”
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Absurd, irreducible; nothing — not even a profound and secret delirium of nature...
– Jean-Paul Sartre, “Nausea”
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He that will not eat till he has demonstration that it will nourish him; he that...
– John Locke, “An Essay Concerning Human Understanding”
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To say, as Nietzsche does, that ‘untruth is the condition of life’...
– Alenka Zupančič, “The Shortest Shadow: Nietzsche’s Philosophy of the Two”
me when i go out: i should've stayed home
me when i stay home: i should've gone out
me when i'm around people: i want to be alone
me when i'm alone: i want to be around people
me when i'm mean to people: i need to be nicer
me when i'm nice to people: i need to be meaner
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this Nietzsche & Wagner course is turning my blog...
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What if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest...
– Friedrich Nietzsche, “The Gay Science” [§341]
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Compassion hurts. When you feel connected to everything, you also feel...
– Andrew Boyd (via suzywire)