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Ideas for Eubulides, Tom Clark and Friedrich Nietzsche

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23. Ethics / F. Existentialism / 1. Existentialism
20111 We could live more naturally, relishing the spectacle, and not thinking we are special [Nietzsche]
24080 We should give style to our character - by applying an artistic plan to its strengths and weaknesses [Nietzsche]
2880 The greatest possibilities in man are still unexhausted [Nietzsche]
24086 The goal is to settle human beings, like other animals, but humans are still changeable [Nietzsche]
20104 Nietzsche tried to lead a thought-provoking life [Safranski on Nietzsche]
7164 Not feeling harnessed to a system of 'ends' is a wonderful feeling of freedom [Nietzsche]
23718 If we say birds of prey could become lambs, that makes them responsible for being birds of prey [Nietzsche]
4489 If faith is lost, people seek other authorities, in order to avoid the risk of willing personal goals [Nietzsche]
23. Ethics / F. Existentialism / 2. Nihilism
20125 The ethical teacher exists to give purpose to what happens necessarily and without purpose [Nietzsche]
24123 My eternal recurrence is opposed to feeling fragmented and imperfect [Nietzsche]
18286 The greatest experience possible is contempt for your own happiness, reason and virtue [Nietzsche]
7847 Initially nihilism was cosmic, but later Nietzsche saw it as a cultural matter [Nietzsche, by Ansell Pearson]
23717 Modern nihilism is now feeling tired of mankind [Nietzsche]
9782 Nietzsche urges that nihilism be active, and will nothing itself [Nietzsche, by Zizek]
23214 For the strongest people, nihilism gives you wings! [Nietzsche]
7198 Nihilism results from measuring the world by our categories which are purely invented [Nietzsche]
23. Ethics / F. Existentialism / 3. Angst
2876 The thought of suicide is a great reassurance on bad nights [Nietzsche]
7078 The freedom of the subject means the collapse of moral certainty [Nietzsche, by Critchley]
23. Ethics / F. Existentialism / 4. Boredom
9306 To ward off boredom at any cost is vulgar [Nietzsche]
14844 People do not experience boredom if they have never learned to work properly [Nietzsche]
20102 Flight from boredom leads to art [Nietzsche]
23. Ethics / F. Existentialism / 5. Existence-Essence
20130 It is absurd to think you can change your own essence, like a garment [Nietzsche]
14808 Over huge periods of time human character would change endlessly [Nietzsche]
23. Ethics / F. Existentialism / 6. Authentic Self
20132 To become what you are you must have no self-awareness [Nietzsche]
2874 Man is the animal whose nature has not yet been fixed [Nietzsche]
20275 Most people think they are already complete, but we can cultivate ourselves [Nietzsche]
6869 Nietzsche thinks the human condition is to overcome and remake itself [Nietzsche, by Ansell Pearson]
7150 By developing herd virtues man fixes what has up to now been the 'unfixed animal' [Nietzsche]
7177 Virtues from outside are dangerous, and they should come from within [Nietzsche]
4513 Virtuous people are inferior because they are not 'persons', but conform to a fixed pattern [Nietzsche]
23. Ethics / F. Existentialism / 7. Existential Action
4504 Morality used to be for preservation, but now we can only experiment, giving ourselves moral goals [Nietzsche]
20106 Nietzsche was fascinated by a will that can turn against itself [Nietzsche, by Safranski]
24079 The best life is the dangerous life [Nietzsche]
23. Ethics / F. Existentialism / 8. Eternal Recurrence
2936 Imagine if before each of your actions you had to accept repeating the action over and over again [Nietzsche]
6842 Nietzsche says facing up to the eternal return of meaninglessness is the response to nihilism [Nietzsche, by Critchley]
24088 See our present lives as eternal! Religions see it as fleeting, and aim at some different life [Nietzsche]
24119 The eternal return of wastefulness is a terrible thought [Nietzsche]
24136 Who can endure the thought of eternal recurrence? [Nietzsche]
24154 If you want one experience repeated, you must want all of them [Nietzsche]
20124 Reliving life countless times - this gives the value back to life which religion took away [Nietzsche]
20137 The great person engages wholly with life, and is happy to endlessly relive the life they created [Nietzsche]
7172 Existence without meaning or goal or end, eternally recurring, is a terrible thought [Nietzsche]
20144 Eternal recurrence is the highest attainable affirmation [Nietzsche]