/lit/ - Literature

>Man does not strive for happiness; only the Englishman does that.

>>22168054
And we're the only nation to acheive it.

Gay Science - 276
Beyond good and evil - 214

English translations of Nietzsche are awful though, so i will not repeat them here.

>>22168043

>>22168043
"We imcomprehebsible ones... we are misidentified - because we ourselves keep growing, keep changing, we shed our old bark, we shed our skins every spring, we keep becoming younger, fuller of future, taller, stronger, we push our roots ever more powerfully into the depths-into evil- while at the same time we embrace the heavens ever more lovingly, more broadly, imbiding their light ever more thirsty with all our twigs and leaves. "

>>22168070
I got it wrong. That was supposed to say "Beyond good and evil - 230"

>>22168071
Give me a woman and I can discover her bottom.

"My grandfather told me you can discover everything you need to know about everything by looking at your hands. I've been looking at mine all my life, every day since I was 5, and you know what I've just realized? They're fucking feet."

Consider every day without dancing a day wasted.

>>22168043

Aphorism 290 from The Gay Science:

>One thing is needful. - To "give style" to one’s character - a great and rare art! It is practiced by those who survey all the strengths and weaknesses of their nature and then fit them into an artistic plan until every one of them appears as art and reason and even weaknesses delight the eye. Here a large mass of second nature has been added; there a piece of original nature has been removed - both times through long practice and daily work at it. Here the ugly that could not be removed is concealed; there it has been reinterpreted and made sublime. Much that is vague and resisted shaping has been saved and exploited for distant views; it is meant to beckon toward the far and immeasurable. In the end, when the work is finished, it becomes evident how the constraint of a single taste governed and formed everything large and small. Whether this taste was good or bad is less important than one might suppose, if only it was a single taste!

>It will be the strong and domineering natures that enjoy their finest gaiety in such constraint and perfection under a law of their own; the passion of their tremendous will relaxes in the face of all stylized nature, of all conquered and serving nature. Even when they have to build palaces and design gardens they demur at giving nature freedom.

>Conversely, it is the weak characters without power over themselves that hate the constraint of style. They feel that if this bitter and evil constraint were imposed upon them they would be demeaned; they become slaves as soon as they serve; they hate to serve. Such spirits - and they may be of the first rank - are always out to shape and interpret their environment as free nature: wild, arbitrary, fantastic, disorderly, and surprising. And they are well advised because it is only in this way that they can give pleasure to themselves. For one thing is needful: that a human being should attain satisfaction with himself, whether it be by means of this or that poetry or art; only then is a human being at all tolerable to behold. Whoever is dissatisfied with himself is continually ready for revenge, and we others will be his victims, if only by having to endure his ugly sight. For the sight of what is ugly makes one bad and gloomy.

The noble human being honors in itself the one who is powerful, also the one who has power over itself, who knows how to speak and to keep silent, who joyfully exercises discipline and harshness over itself and respects everything that is severe and harsh. "A hard heart Wotan has put into my breast" reads a line from an old Scandinavian saga: this is fitting poetry indeed from the soul of a proud Viking. Such a human being is proud that it is not made for compassion, which is why the hero of the saga adds the warning "if someone's heart is not already hard in youth, his heart will never become hard." Noble and courageous human beings who think in this manner are furthest from that morality that sees the distinguishing feature of morality precisely in compassion or in acting on behalf of others or in desinteressement; belief in oneself, pride in oneself, a fundamental hostility and irony toward "selflessness" belong just as surely to noble morality as a mild disdain and caution toward sympathy and a "warm heart." --It is the powerful who understand how to honor, it is their art, their realm of invention. Deep reverence for age and for one's background --all law is based on this double reverence --faith and prejudice in favor of one's forefathers and at the expense of future generations are typical in the morality of the powerful; and conversely when people of "modern ideas" almost instinctively believe in "progress" and "the future" and increasingly lose their respect for age, this in itself suffices to expose the ignoble descent of these "ideas."

>>22168434
That last paragraph BTFO'd troons

>>22168440
The Christian Saints did this best though. Nietzsche btfo himself

>>22168043
That one about fighting monsters.

>>22168043
this is who yall been jerking off for 5 years? some nigga writing aphorisms? lmao

>>22168043
why do philosophers write in aphorisms anyway

>>22168132
Lol. Lmao even.

>>22168434
Neoliberalism is just nietzschean desu

>>22169027
Troons are fully embracing the last paragraph

>>22168043
>trannies make their way into another thread

Nuke da board

>>22168043
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.

>>22169371
Nietzsche did it because he was very ill most of the time, extreme headaches etc so he had to pause his writing alot and got interrupted. It fit him well to write aphorisms in spurts. Maybe he predicted stuff like twitter causing zoomeresque attention span so he would be read in the future.

>>22170260
Nietzsche did not support neoliberalism. See, for example aphorism 40 of The Gay Science:
>On the lack of noble manners. - Soldiers and their leaders have always a far better relationship with one another than workers and their employers. So far at least, culture that rests on a military foundation still stands high above all so called industrial civilisation; the latter, in its present form, is in general the meanest mode of existence that has ever been. It is simply the law of necessity that operates here: people want to live, and have to sell themselves; but they despise him who exploits their necessity and purchases the worker. It is curious that the subjection to powerful, fear inspiring, and even dreadful individuals, to tyrants and leaders of armies, is not at all felt so painfully as the subjection to such undistinguished and uninteresting persons as the captains of industry; in the employer the worker usually sees merely a crafty, blood sucking dog of a man who speculates on all misery and the employers name, form, character, and reputation are altogether indifferent to them. It is probable that the manufacturers and great magnates of commerce have hitherto lacked too much all those forms and attributes of a superior kind, which alone make persons interesting; if they had had the nobility of the nobly born in their looks and bearing, there would perhaps have been no socialism in the masses of the people. For these are really ready for slavery of every kind, provided that the superior class above them constantly shows itself legitimately superior, and born to command by its noble presence! The commonest man feels that nobility is not to be improvised, and that it is his part to honour it as the fruit of long periods of time. But the absence of the higher presence, and the notorious vulgarity of manufacturers with ruddy, fat hands, gives him the idea that only accident and luck has elevated the one above the other. Well then so he reasons with himself - let us try accident and luck! Our turn to throw the dice! And thus socialism is born.