Daily Nietzsche Quote Section

From: funky (ISA)16 Jun 2006 03:57
To: ALL37 of 47

Most likely factual:

 

"Ahem! You out there, honey? Could you please go fetch the toilet paper, we've run out and I didn't notice until it was too late..."

 

-Nietzsche

From: 388405efit03=1-0 (KABINGER)16 Jun 2006 21:35
To: funky (ISA) 38 of 47
He really galls you, doesn't he tootse?
From: funky (ISA)16 Jun 2006 21:37
To: 388405efit03=1-0 (KABINGER) 39 of 47
well, not really. I have never read any of his works. I am ignorant.
From: 388405efit03=1-0 (KABINGER)16 Jun 2006 21:38
To: funky (ISA) 40 of 47
The reason I ask is because he has some pretty extreme views of women. Personally, I chalk it up to sexual frustration.
From: Manthorp16 Jun 2006 22:55
To: 388405efit03=1-0 (KABINGER) 41 of 47
This was the man who wrote The Gay Science...
From: 388405efit03=1-0 (KABINGER)16 Jun 2006 23:20
To: Manthorp 42 of 47
Indeed.
From: funky (ISA)17 Jun 2006 05:05
To: 388405efit03=1-0 (KABINGER) 43 of 47

ah, well, maybe that explains why I've never bothered to read him much.

 

I also tend to feel like...pah! he's dead. he's gone. let's make new philosophies and move on, ffs.

From: 388405efit03=1-0 (KABINGER)17 Jun 2006 06:23
To: funky (ISA) 44 of 47
And that's what others have done; they've expanded on what's been said in the past. I think the past can serve as a foundation for the present.
From: THERE IS NO GOD BUT (RENDLE)17 Jun 2006 10:52
To: 388405efit03=1-0 (KABINGER) 45 of 47
Didn't he have a thing for his sister?
From: Stoo17 Jun 2006 14:52
To: ALL46 of 47
Another Schopenhauer one for you all:

quote:
A quick test of the notion that enjoyment outweighs pain in this world, or that they are at any rate balanced would be to compare the feelings of an animal engaged in eating another with those of the animal being eaten.
From: 388405efit03=1-0 (KABINGER)17 Jun 2006 20:01
To: THERE IS NO GOD BUT (RENDLE) 47 of 47
He would have if he was still alive when his sister became enraptured with Hitler. She basically gave Hitler permission to use Nietzsche's writings to further his own ends, and we all know where that ended up. Nietzsche like Jews, and would have been horrified at the thought.