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“To paraphrase Nietzsche:
'That which doesn't kill us, sometimes makes us wish it had.”
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'That which doesn't kill us, sometimes makes us wish it had.”
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“Your only problem, perhaps, is that you scream without letting yourself cry.”
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“Our faith in others betrays that we would rather have faith in ourselves. Our longing for a friend is our betrayer. And often with our love we want merely to overcome envy. And often we attack and make ourselves enemies, to conceal that we are vulnerable.”
― Thus Spoke Zarathustra
― Thus Spoke Zarathustra
“It has gradually become clear to me what every great philosophy up till now has consisted of – namely, the confession of its originator, and a species of involuntary and unconscious autobiography; and moreover that the moral (or immoral) purpose in every philosophy has constituted the true vital germ out of which the entire plant has always grown.”
― Beyond Good and Evil
― Beyond Good and Evil
“Friedrich Nietzsche, who famously gave us the ‘God is dead’ phrase was interested in the sources of morality. He warned that the emergence of something (whether an organ, a legal institution, or a religious ritual) is never to be confused with its acquired purpose: ‘Anything in existence, having somehow come about, is continually interpreted anew, requisitioned anew, transformed and redirected to a new purpose.’
This is a liberating thought, which teaches us to never hold the history of something against its possible applications. Even if computers started out as calculators, that doesn’t prevent us from playing games on them. (47) (quoting Nietzsche, the Genealogy of Morals)”
― The Bonobo and the Atheist: In Search of Humanism Among the Primates
This is a liberating thought, which teaches us to never hold the history of something against its possible applications. Even if computers started out as calculators, that doesn’t prevent us from playing games on them. (47) (quoting Nietzsche, the Genealogy of Morals)”
― The Bonobo and the Atheist: In Search of Humanism Among the Primates
Stacy’s 2025 Year in Books
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