/lit/ - Literature

What about The Wanderer over the Sea of Fog? The painting that represents the contemplation of art itself!

>>4675995
o lord
>that face wen qt bookstore clerk pronounces nietzsche right

>What is good?—Whatever augments the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself, in man.
>What is evil?—Whatever springs from weakness.
>What is happiness?—The feeling that power increases—that resistance is overcome.
>Not contentment, but more power; not peace at any price, but war; not virtue, but efficiency (virtue in the Renaissance >sense, virtu, virtue free of moral acid).
>The weak and the botched shall perish: first principle of our charity. And one should help them to it.
>What is more harmful than any vice?—Practical sympathy for the botched and the weak—Christianity....

Do you accept such a brazen morality as the way forward for humanity?

>>4010339

I am trying to get fit. I will become the Ubermensch

Why do you still read ancient philosophers?

That guys didn't even know what a negative number is.

The fact that I can access wikipedia alone makes me smarter than them.

The world without science was so pathetic. I mean most of that guys believed that Earth is the centre of the universe and that it was created by some god, lol.

Read with SparkNotes. But buy the actual SparkNotes book, so you can have it beside you as you read.

Then do this:

1) Read the chapter summary in SparkNotes.
2) Read the actual chapter.

Repeat until you don't need to anymore (i.e. after doing this with many books).