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Incredible scholarship and understanding of Nietzsche’s views

Incredible scholarship and understanding of Nietzsche’s views

"I’ll tell you! We have killed him— you and I! We [we modern thinkers] are all his murderers. But... what were we doing when we [we ‘Copernicans’] unchained this Earth from its sun? Where is it moving to now? Where are we moving to? Away from all suns? Are we not continually falling? And backwards, sideways, forwards in all directions? Is there still an up and a down?"

began to let that energetic and gloomy genius work upon my mind. In this book, in which every line cried out renunciation, denial, and resignation, I saw a mirror in which I espied the whole world, life, and my own mind depicted in frightful grandeur."

Schopenhauer:
"I came across this book in old Rohn's second-hand bookshop, and, taking it up very gingerly, I turned over its pages. I know not what demon whispered to me: ‘Take this book home with you.’ At all events, contrary to my habit of not being hasty in the purchase of books, I took it home. Back in my room, I threw myself into the corner of the sofa with my booty, and

“Nietzsche’s declaration ‘God is dead’ means that God, the highest value, the metaphysical ground of Western civilization, has lost its power, and with it, all traditional values that once derived their meaning from Him.”

The genius is dependent on other and higher laws than are ordinary men, on laws that often seem to contradict the fundamental laws of morality and justice. Fundamentally, however,these laws
are the same when grasped in the widest perspective...The genius representsthe peak of a natural and spiritual harmony.

Morality & politics:
"only the superman counts"

polemical and provcative appraoch to writing & structuring arguments

"What is it: is man only a blunder of God, or God only a blunder of man?"
— Twilight of the Idols (1889)
To live alone one must be an animal or a god—says Aristotle. But there is yet a third case: one must be both—a philosopher."
— Twilight of the Idols (1889)