Christianity remains to this day the greatest misfortune of humanity.
Friedrich NietzscheRead
The usual false conclusions of mankind are these: a thing exists, therefore it has a right to exist.
Interpretation
Nietzsche critiques the assumption that existence implies entitlement to continuation.
In this quote, Nietzsche challenges a common human belief that simply because something exists, it deserves to continue existing or have inherent value. He prompts us to question the nature of existence and entitlement, suggesting that existence alone does not justify the right or the necessity of something's permanence. This quote encourages deeper thought about values, ethics, and the arbitrary nature of existence.
In practice
During a philosophy class discussing existentialism.
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.
Working at the Food Bank with my kids is an eye-opener. The face of hunger isn't the bum on the street drinking Sterno; it's the working poor. They don't look any different, they don't behave any differently, they're not really any less educated. They are incredibly less privileged, and that's it.
If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime.
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe.
Adding to your list of enemies is never a sound strategy, yet ISIS' ferocious campaign against the Shia, Kurds, Yazidis, Christians, and Muslims who don't precisely share its views has united every ethnic and religious group in Syria and Iraq against them.
The most familiar precepts are not always the truest.
If you live in free countries, you don't have to spend all your life arguing about freedom because it is all around you. It seems redundant to make a lot of noise about something when, in fact, there it is. But if someone tries to remove it, it becomes important for you to formulate your own defenses of it.
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