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Nietzsche: Philosopher, Psychologist, Antichrist

by Walter Kaufmann

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Dec 12, 2021 05:30PM

“but it’s time we were used to the fact that there exists a law of large numbers. The more material involved in a historical event, the greater the likelihood of individual incidental errors—judicial, tactical, ideological, economic, or whatever. We grasp the process only in its basic and determining outlines, and what matters most is the conviction that the process itself is necessary and inevitable.”
― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, In the First Circle

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“Killing wolves is right; eating people is wrong.”
― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, In the First Circle

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“But should a man love such a bad country? This people estranged from God, a people that had committed so many crimes and shown no sign of remorse—was this nation of slaves worthy of sacrificial victims, geniuses who had laid their heads on the block unknown and unsung? For a hundred, for two hundred years to come, this people would be content with its trough. Should the torchbearers of human thought be sacrificed for them?”
― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, In the First Circle

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“Wheresoever the Roman conquers, he inhabits,” is a very just observation of Seneca, confirmed by history and experience”
― Edward Gibbon, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1: 180-395

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“If only I believed that there is any backward and forward in human history! It’s like an octopus, with neither back nor front. For me there’s no word so devoid of meaning as ‘progress.’ What progress, Illarion Palych? Progress from what? To what? In those twenty-seven centuries, have people become better? kinder? or at least a bit happier? No, they’ve become worse, nastier, and unhappier! And all this thanks to beautiful ideas!”
― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, In the First Circle

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