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Nietzsche, Suffering & Knowledge

9/13/2010

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  “Have you suffered for knowledge’s sake?”--Nietzsche

  To me Nietzsche is a Prometheus figure who paid dearly for engaging the gods and giving the flame to humankind. A brilliant mind and a broken body.

"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself."

"Not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, does the enlightened man dislike to wade into its waters"


"One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly."

"The lie is a condition of life."

"We have art in order not to die of the truth."
 
"All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth."


"There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings."

"This is the paradox of my existence: I have loved life passionately but have never dared to channel this love in the direction of normal erotic experience.... Why must my head split open with the roar of a thousand seas, I who loved the stillness of the mountains and walked alone through miles of utter silence?"
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"A person can live only so long as he is drunk - drunk on wine, woman, ideas or Messianic passion. And in my Dionysian thirst I have been intoxicated with everything - even with the monkeydom of Darwin and the positivists. But try as I may I cannot go Buddhist and get drunk on death. The idea of sinking into nothing horrifies me; Like Dostoevsky I am overcome by the frozen horror of eternity; to sleep for a billion years and never again see the dawn rising above the mountains...never again...never again."
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