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