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“We take pleasure in the negation of the hero, the supreme appearance of the Will, because he is, after all, mere appearance, and because the eternal life of the Will is not affected by his annihilation.”
― The Birth of Tragedy and Other Writings
― The Birth of Tragedy and Other Writings
“Søren Kierkegaard: Truth always rests with the minority, and the minority is always stronger than the majority, because the minority is generally formed by those who really have an opinion, while the strength of a majority is illusory, formed by the gangs who have no opinion—and who, therefore, in the next instant (when it is evident that the minority is the stronger) assume its opinion… while truth again reverts to a new minority.”
― Hypersanity: Thinking Beyond Thinking
― Hypersanity: Thinking Beyond Thinking
“The catastrophe slumbering in the womb of theoretical culture is gradually beginning to frighten modern man; in other words, he is beginning to suspect the consequences of his own existence; he therefore dips into his store of experiences for some means of warding off the danger, although he does not really believe in them.”
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“We have already gone beyond whatever we have words for.”
― Twilight of the Idols
― Twilight of the Idols
“We are to recognize that everything which comes into being must be prepared for painful destruction; we are forced to gaze into the terrors of individual existence – and yet we are not to freeze in horror: its meta- physical solace tears us momentarily out of the turmoil of changing figures.”
― The Birth of Tragedy and Other Writings
― The Birth of Tragedy and Other Writings
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