/lit/ - Literature

>>18699751
That's making my head spin, but it's fascinating. Reminds me of Nietzsche's idea of The Shortest Shadow, which is a kind of pure immanence of values.

>>17200178
True, but you have to wonder to what extent his illness affected his writing, not just in the sense that it gave him insight into suffering, but also in the sense that concepts such as Amor Fati, Eternal Return or even the Ubermensch might've been inspired by his manic episodes.

>>14733353
I prefer Stephen Hawking's idea that philosophy is dead and that philosophy remains dead. And we have killed it. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives: who will wipe this blood off us?

>>12692963
>One year talking about the depravity of Jews, and another talking about how “antisemites” were losers.
No contradiction there.

>>12567548
>>12567563
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>In fine, I found most frequently, behind the proud disdain of philosophy in young scholars, the evil after-effect of some particular philosopher, to whom on the whole obedience had been foresworn, without, however, the spell of his scornful estimates of other philosophers having been got rid of--the result being a general ill-will to all philosophy. (Such seems to me, for instance, the after-effect of Schopenhauer on the most modern Germany: by his unintelligent rage against Hegel, he has succeeded in severing the whole of the last generation of Germans from its connection with German culture, which culture, all things considered, has been an elevation and a divining refinement of the HISTORICAL SENSE, but precisely at this point Schopenhauer himself was poor, irreceptive, and un-German to the extent of ingeniousness.)