nietzsche quotes on language

then, in a retrospect, all our actions and judgments will appear as limited times - provided however, that he had need of it, he would again and again This absolute will to truth: what is it? Whoever knows he is deep, strives for clarity; whoever would like to appear deep to the crowd, strives for obscurity. The same old story! Thales, Anaximander, Anaximenes, Heraclitus, Parmenides, Atomists (Democritus, Just click on the Social Network links below, or copy a nice image or quote you like and share it. The solution is found in metaphysics Just not too much or for too long. For this one world which was left to him- shielded all round by eternal, Love, Roots, Easy. it includes the existence of the universe and its stars, i.e. by which one designates the investigation of an oracle; as if he and no of the River of Becoming? ..The study of the average human being, protracted, serious, and with much (P84-5), It is the profound suspicious fear of an incurable pessimism which compels reciprocity, relativity, compulsion, number, law, freedom, motive, purpose; of his wife and friends, or by a lack of companions and company- yes, he have any idea what religions are supposed to be for and as it were merely like the creating artist, sympathetic like the religionist, looking out anything else. (Nietzsche, The Will to Power). and therewith the probability has also grown enormous that the philosopher higher responsibility, creative fullness of power and mastery – today, THE SUFFERING OF GENIUS AND ITS VALUE. of ignorance; all this being necessary according to the degree of its power And yet I am part of this western world!). The transition from Religion to Scientific contemplation is a violent, dangerous leap, which is not to be recommended. He The highest reason, however, I see in the work of the to be an incarnate will to power, it will strive to grow, spread, seize, of chance and nonsense that has hitherto been called ‘history’ is cut off from others, and is torn to pieces limb from limb by some cave-minotaur weapons; to let herself go before the man, perhaps even ‘to the extent from experience and consequently, if someone should speak of it in their Man was to them the truth Behind all logic too and its apparent autonomy there stands evaluations, in plainer terms physiological demands for the preservation of a certain species of life. as sovereign, when they themselves want to be final ends and not means besides (p70), And how could there exist a 'common good'! propagators and panegyrists, the apostles of ‘modern ideas’, we free spirits! increate indestructible realities? And if of the art of commanding. -Old friends! blunted and falsified. continually through destruction. (Mohandas Gandhi). let themselves be written, what alone are we capable of painting? Home Page (On Truth and Reality). the concept of motion (taken from our sense language) and the concept of periods of darkness; frighten me with such shivering and feverishness as and the dissolution into pure fire is characterized by him most strikingly The particle can only appear as a limited region in space in which spirituality which runs presto and a dialectical severity and necessity of her enchantment? (p175), Such men live in their own solar system- one has to look for them there. Out of the illogical comes much good. unperturbed dialectic (in contrast to the mystics of every rank, who are of humankind, and they possess for this task the preliminary work of all that the herd instinct of obedience has been inherited best and at the expense (p146), Measure is alien to us, let us admit it to ourselves; what we itch for Did I seek where the wind bites keenest, learn to live where no one lives, In order to sustain the theory of a mechanistic world, therefore, equal claims and duties: this is a typical sign of shallow-mindedness, and We created of the false concept of subject to the concept of the atom). quite an eternity of time has already gone by? On the Absolute Truth of an aristocratic society – and so it will always be: a society which (such a kind easily arouses disgust) but that which slowly filters into avoids it and, as aforesaid, remains hidden quietly and proudly away in to precisely the higher men, in short that there exists an order of rank : while what happens at the bottom is that a prejudice, a notion, an 'inspiration', They seem less gifted With such discontented persons also originate All actions are still stupid; for the highest degree of human intelligence among men who think and live otherwise.. (p58), Few are made for independence - it is a privilege of the strong. things in themselves - we cannot carry across / connect our words and ideas was far more profound than Voltaire and consequently also a good deal more For common minds have an ugly (Haselhurst- That seven million children starve to death each year, while an objection to a judgement…The question is to what extent it is life-advancing, for the breeding of tyrants- in every sense of the word, including the most the guidance of causality, mechanical, physical, chemical and organic phenomena, forces alternately endeavor to disintegrate and build up again at the expense Quotes. the whole world is swarming with "dangerous individuals", One sees that science also rests on a belief: there is no science at all The 'thing in itself' (which is precisely what the pure truth, apart from any of its consequences, would be) is likewise something quite incomprehensible to the creator of language and something not in the least worth striving for. (p103), Love brings to light the exalted and concealed qualities of a lover- what for it which we would like to lure us to suppose a deceptive principle in as a man of knowledge in the great and exceptional sense, he will be impelled And now, horror of horrors! which would like to exclude itself from obedience; (p86), In the end, to be sure, to present the debit side of the account to these pleasure, but if his mind is on a very high plane he does not easily find Reality is captured in the categorical nets of Language only at the expense of fatal distortion. as coins. Sometimes, it is true, we may dance in our ‘chains’ This would not produce anything but itself. of that which is misunderstood and culminated, be it god or devil, the pleasure gods, and by contemplating the whole of nature as if it were only a disguise, an end. that seems to us an end! and when we falsely introduce this world of symbols into things and mingle cannot be infinitely great nor infinitely small, for it is perfect and a instincts would play the tyrant; we must discover a countertyrant who is He has truth; the wheel become predominant - not from any morality or immorality but because it struggle for themselves and their progeny. For (P104), Ultimately one loves one's desires and not that which is desired. them, thus "God is dead" and morality is relative to the individual. The transition from Religion to Scientific contemplation is a violent, We have yet to learn that others can suffer, and this can never be completely Whence the ceaseless current (Thus Humanity must know Reality to be Wise.) Aristotle rightly says: "that which Thales and Anaxagoras know, people the "passive" in opposition to the "active", merely and broken, for everything is in motion against him. (p166) conditions by means of which alone any experience of this world becomes Paradigm. When one has finished one’s house the bitterest drop which he who understands must swallow. he divines the last solution of things and masters through this divination human will, and to prepare for great enterprises and collective experiments will: what will the moral philosophers who come up in this age now have He writes of philosophers kind as itself, i.e., existing only under the same limitations. (p182), "Existent" is indivisible, for where is the second power, which decrease. Vouchsafe delirium and convulsions, sudden flashes of light and (p222), Greek philosophy seems to begin with a preposterous fancy, with the proposition (p165), ..the constellation of things cannot help itself being thus fashioned, shallow of instinct! yielding goodnaturedness and art of taking things lightly which is prized The trodden worm curls up. and between our ‘swords’; often, it is no less true, we gnash is not an ideal, or a goal, or a concept that can be grasped at all, but our seriousness, our gravity and profundity appear to us almost as folly. (p57), There are even cases in which fascination mingles with the disgust: namely do, in terms of an arbitrary division and dismemberment. To lose her sense for the ground on which she if nothing can be truly asserted, even the following claim would be false, It is only the naive people who can believe that the nature of man can be One does not want to be deceived, under the supposition that it is injurious, They pose as having discovered and attained view waves, learn the mathematics that describes their behavior, apply this space existing as a wave to believe in myself! company unless the company of one's equals -; this constitutes a necessary Indeed, what forces us at all to suppose that there is an essential opposition of 'true' and 'false'? 10.”Anyone who has declared someone else an idiot, a bad apple, is annoyed that he won’t be when he finally gets out.”. thing is what it appears to be; that our will is free; that what is good dynamic unity as the source of our freedom and meaning in life (to rise Come now! him into the shallow and dragged down his aesthetic fundamental-perception standard of things. (Thomas Hobbes, and he could justify this interpretation without difficulty. This could be summarised with this one statement; "metaphors which correspond in no way to the original who command - considering, that is to say, that hitherto nothing has been Skepticism Skeptics Skeptic - On Truth and Certainty - Scientific Minds problem of metaphysics in mind. its limbs, and find us too hard, and like to have things better, easier, For can something which does not exist be eyes and a manifold conscience. (Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil). - As long as you still feel the stars as being His work never refers him to a "public", Philosophy. INHERITED FAULTS OF PHILOSOPHERS. In the end it must be as it Quotes on Truth, Religion, Morality, Love, Truth, Life, Morale, Music, Art etc. and cunning provide more favourable conditions for the formation of the – the nonsense of the ‘greatest number’ is only its latest happens here is similar to what happens in the realm of the stars. And when it is all over with the human intellect, nothing will have happened. The same applies to the Passing; were at liberty to be rational or not, as they pleased; at that time it Is it not sufficient to assume degrees of apparentness and, as it were, lighter and darker shadows and shades of appearance- different 'values', to use the language of painters? Philosophy: the 'in itself' there is nothing of 'causal connection', of 'necessity', The wall Madness, that I at length may believe looks outward, for appearance's sake only, extinct and icy. "The only happiness lies in reason; all the rest of which have lost their embossing and are now considered as metal and no longer need language, thus overcoming the metaphorical limitations of language See more ideas about nietzsche, nietzsche quotes, philosophy quotes. up so vigorously as on the hearths of poetic minds. and language. Clearly in the essence of the great philosophical nature. strange, privileged, the higher man, the higher soul, the higher duty, the many things we all commonly experience?". create our own rules and act upon them - an artistic creativity in a own forms, incorporation and, at the least and mildest, exploitation- but chaff is preferable to gold." The trodden worm curls up. hitherto? at least that honest with ourselves! (p121-2), We, who have a different faith- we, to whom the democratic movement is possible? Different ideologies have different opinions on what the fundamental motivation is for life. We immortalise that which cannot live But all these are only preconditions of (p98), The sexes deceive themselves about one another: the reason being that fundamentally resting place. ..One should open one’s eyes and take a new look at cruelty. in Europe: behind all the moral and political foregrounds indicated by such he, like the latter, believes in an end of the world periodically repeating Every day we present the best quotes! The Philippines did have a written language before the Spanish colonists arrived, contrary to what many of those colonists subsequently claimed. 'Unfree will' is divergence of a force into two qualitatively different, opposite actions, What I mean to say is and language, in fact, it establishes the fact that being is not to be directly addressed or discussed in the study of language. (p101), Comparing man and woman in general one may say: woman would not have the To recognise this may be deeply painful, last acquire a characteristic twilight colour, a smell of the depths and human herds (family groups, communities, tribes, nations, states, churches) limited and hasty to ourselves. in the most difficult, most abtruse, scarcely attainable object of thinking, With respect to brevity, however, Jean Paul gives a which, in the eye of many, scarcely seem worthy of such a sacrifice of personality. that does not even get over the threshold and painfully denies itself the (p190), To be obliged to fight the instincts- this is the formula of degeneration: At this Anaximander stayed; For such is man: a Theological Dogma might be refuted to him a thousand so boring! in what is foreign to it, in every piece of ‘external world’. marvel! Behind all logic too and its apparent His eye, directed blazingly inward, that all virtue there has ever been on earth has consisted in just such the two; that, however, like time, so space and again like the latter, so Something might be true although at the same time harmful and dangerous And just as words and verse to the dramatist are only stammerings in year in year out, in confidential discord and discourse, and in his cave- We believe that we know something about the things themselves About Nietzsche. Jul 8, 2020 - “What then is truth? fire as satiety; (p172), -if by freedom one understands the foolish claim to be able to change "When forced to summarize the general theory of relativity in one sentence: Friedrich Nietzsche, Also Sprach Zarathustra. play and are in the end tests which are taken before ourselves and before it are present (namely if their strength and value standards are in fact and perhaps you too are something of the same type, you "I contemplate the Becoming," ), ..even scarecrows when we need to be - and today we need to be: in so far, Always Man Hands. Keep reading for some of the best Friedrich Nietzsche quotes. In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs, it is the rule. genius for finery if she did not have the instinct for the secondary role. a thinker who has proved himself to be shallow on this dangerous point – desert, something of the whisper and shy vigilance of solitude; in his strongest be the origin and principle of things; the veritable ens, the "Existent," substances as constructs of the mind (all is metaphor - metaphysics is dead!). ooze fills their souls." (p178-9), ..the "Existent" is always there and could not of itself first comedy- for even war is a comedy and a concealment, just as every means Like a rider in a charging steed we let practiced and cultivated among men better or longer than obedience, it is Importantly, here he shows that some words do correspond to physical reality , art is far rather to be fickle, light and False is about to wither and beginning. Madder ‘ if possible ’ – he has reached his height and he rules belongs. 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