Christianity remains to this day the greatest misfortune of humanity.
Friedrich NietzscheRead
All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.
Interpretation
Walking can lead to deep reflection and creativity, allowing great ideas to emerge.
Friedrich Nietzsche suggests that the act of walking stimulates the mind, leading to creative and profound thoughts. This highlights the connection between physical movement and intellectual exploration, indicating that the simplicity of walking can enable a deeper understanding of complex ideas.
In practice
In a motivational seminar, one might say, 'Remember, all truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.'
Christianity remains to this day the greatest misfortune of humanity.
That which does not kill us makes us stronger.
Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.
Watch them clamber, these swift monkeys! They clamber over one another and thus drag one another into the mud and the depth. They all want to get to the throne: that is their madness β as if happiness sat on the throne. Often, mud sits on the throne β and often the throne also on mud. Mad they all appear to me, clambering monkeys and overardent. Foul smells their idol, the cold monster: foul, they smell to me altogether, these idolators.
Reason is the cause of our falsification of the evidence of the senses. In so far as the senses show becoming, passing away, change, they do not lie.
The anarchist and the Christian have a common origin.
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Since the 70s and the 80s you see the rise of neoliberalism. The central dogma of neoliberalism was that most people are selfish. So, we started designing our institutions around that idea, our schools, our workplaces, our democracies. The government became less and less important.
... in practice the standard for what constitutes rape is set not at the level of women's experience of violation but just above the level of coercion acceptable to men.
Many could forgo heavy meals, a full wardrobe, a fine house, etcetera. It is the ego they cannot forgo.
We have long forgotten the ritual by which the house of our life was erected. But when it is under assault and enemy bombs are already taking their toll, what enervated, perverse antiquities do they not lay bare in the foundations.
We thought of life by analogy with a journey, a pilgrimage, which had a serious purpose at the end, and the thing was to get to that end, success or whatever it is, maybe heaven after youβre dead. But we missed the point the whole way along. It was a musical thing and you were supposed to sing or to dance while the music was being played.
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