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"Ceika lays out a very helpful groundwork for analyzing Nietzsche and Marx. I almost see where he's going with this because he discusses how both thinkers admit that perspectives are fundamentally limited to the conditions of their progenitors. This might lead to the Hegelian idea of contradiction, in that history repeatedly contradicts itself, like fighting for liberty in America while non-whites are persecuted." — Dec 19, 2025 01:20PM
"Ceika lays out a very helpful groundwork for analyzing Nietzsche and Marx. I almost see where he's going with this because he discusses how both thinkers admit that perspectives are fundamentally limited to the conditions of their progenitors. This might lead to the Hegelian idea of contradiction, in that history repeatedly contradicts itself, like fighting for liberty in America while non-whites are persecuted." — Dec 19, 2025 01:20PM
“Be like a headland: the Waves beat against it continuously, but it stands fast and around it the boiling water dies down.”
― Meditations
― Meditations
“Nobody but the dead know whether all these things people talk about are worth dying for or not.”
― Johnny Got His Gun
― Johnny Got His Gun
“Take care, philosophers and friends, of knowledge, and beware of martyrdom! Of suffering “for the truth’s sake”! Even of defending yourselves! It spoils all the innocence and fine neutrality of your conscience; it makes you headstrong against objections and red rags; it stupefies, animalizes, and brutalizes when in the struggle with danger, slander, suspicion, expulsion, and even worse consequences of hostility, or of have to pose as protectors of truth upon earth—as though “the truth” were such an innocuous and incompetent creature as to require protectors!”
― Beyond Good and Evil
― Beyond Good and Evil
“The guillotine is the concretion of the law; it is called vindicte; it is not neutral, and it does not permit you to remain neutral. He who sees it shivers with the most mysterious of shivers. All social problems erect their interrogation point around this chopping-knife.”
― Les Misérables
― Les Misérables
“Poverty in youth, when it succeeds, has this magnificent property about it, that it turns the whole will toward effort, and the whole soul toward aspiration. Poverty instantly lays material life bare and renders it hideous; hence inexpressible bounds toward the ideal life. The wealthy young man has a hundred coarse and brilliant distractions, horse races, hunting, tobacco, gaming, good repasts, and all the rest of it; occupations for the baser side of the soul, at the expense of the loftier and more delicate sides. The poor young man wins his bread with difficulty; he eats; when he has eaten, he has nothing more but meditation. He goes to the spectacles which God furnishes gratis; he gazes at the sky, space, the stars, flowers, children, the humanity among which he is suffering, the creation admits which he beams. He gazes so much on humanity that he perceives its soul, he gazes upon creation to such an extent that he beholds God. He dreams, he feels himself great; he dreams on and feels himself tender.”
― Les Misérables
― Les Misérables
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