Ecce Homo: How One Becomes what One is; The Antichrist: a Curse on ChristianityFor some, the question remains: Why Nietzsche? Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) was quite simply one of the most original and influential philosophers who ever lived; in addition, his writing style was brilliant, epigrammatic, idiosyncratic [It is my ambi |
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... understand anything at all of my Zarathustra, one must perhaps be similarly qualified as I am — with one foot beyond life... 4 I have never understood the art of being prejudiced against myself — this too I owe to my incomparable father ...
... understand anything at all of my Zarathustra, one must perhaps be similarly qualified as I am — with one foot beyond life... 4 I have never understood the art of being prejudiced against myself — this too I owe to my incomparable father ...
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... understand why I set forth precisely here my personal procedure, my sureness of instinct in terms of practice. In times of décadence I forbade them to myself as harmful; as soon as life was rich and proud enough again for them, I ...
... understand why I set forth precisely here my personal procedure, my sureness of instinct in terms of practice. In times of décadence I forbade them to myself as harmful; as soon as life was rich and proud enough again for them, I ...
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... understand the origin of the German intellect — in distressed intestines...German intellect is indigestion, it gets finished with nothing. — But the English diet as well, which in comparison with the German, even the French diet, is a ...
... understand the origin of the German intellect — in distressed intestines...German intellect is indigestion, it gets finished with nothing. — But the English diet as well, which in comparison with the German, even the French diet, is a ...
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... understand Hamlet? It is certainty, not doubt that drives a man crazy...But one must be deep, an abyss, a philosopher in order to feel this way...We are all afraid of the truth. And may I confess: I feel instinctively sure and certain ...
... understand Hamlet? It is certainty, not doubt that drives a man crazy...But one must be deep, an abyss, a philosopher in order to feel this way...We are all afraid of the truth. And may I confess: I feel instinctively sure and certain ...
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... understand itself” too early — . In the meantime the organizing “idea,” summoned to rule, is growing and growing in the depths — begins to command, it slowly leads back out of the by-ways and wrong ways, it prepares individual qualities ...
... understand itself” too early — . In the meantime the organizing “idea,” summoned to rule, is growing and growing in the depths — begins to command, it slowly leads back out of the by-ways and wrong ways, it prepares individual qualities ...
Contents
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The Antichrist | 99 |
Preface | 101 |
Ecce Homo | 177 |
Ecce Homo | 179 |
Table of Contents | 181 |
Translators Introduction | 1 |
Ecce Homo | 5 |
Preface | 7 |
The Antichrist | 99 |
Preface | 101 |
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Page 148 - Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world? For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe.
Page 148 - Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you ? If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy ; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.
Page 148 - Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world? and if the world shall be judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge the smallest matters? Know ye not that we shall judge angels? how much more things that pertain to this life?
Page 148 - ... for if ye love them which love you, what reward have ye? do not even the publicans the same? And if ye salute your brethren only, what do ye more than others? do not even the publicans so? Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.
Page 2 - But, by what I have gathered from your own relation, and the answers I have with much pains wringed and extorted from you, I cannot but conclude the bulk of your natives to be the most pernicious race of little odious vermin, that nature ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth.
Page 10 - You had not yet sought yourselves: and you found me. Thus do all believers; therefore all faith amounts to so little. Now I bid you lose me and find yourselves; and only when you have all denied me will I return to you.
Page 148 - Blessed are ye when men shall hate you, and when they shall separate you from their company, and shall reproach you, and cast out your name as evil, for the Son of man's sake. 23 Rejoice ye in that day, and leap for joy: for, behold, your reward is great in heaven: for in the like manner did their fathers unto the prophets.
Page 74 - Veda were priests and not even fit to unfasten Zarathustra's sandal — all this is the least of things, and gives no idea of the distance, of the azure solitude, in which this work dwells.
Page 51 - Saying yes to life even in its strangest and hardest problems; the will to life rejoicing over its own inexhaustibility even in the very sacrifice of its highest types...
Page 7 - without testimony." But the disproportion between the greatness of my task and the smallness of my contemporaries has found expression in the fact that one has neither heard nor even seen me. I live on my own credit; it is perhaps a mere prejudice that I live.