/lit/ - Literature

>Some other quote picked at random

>people who use this statement without understanding the context within which it was stated

>>4994374
>>4994373

>>4994374
this

>>4994370
He's dying. Religion is dying in the civilized world.

daily reminder this anon will be reporting every single post with a picture of a fedora tipper.

i call it the fedora crusade

>>4994380
>being this deluded by the internet
time to get a life and face reality champ

>The Thought of Death. It gives me a melancholy happiness to live in the midst of this confusion of streets, of necessities, of voices: how much enjoyment, impatience and desire, how much thirsty life and drunkenness of life comes to light here every moment! And yet it will soon be so still for all these shouting, lively, life- loving people! How everyone's shadow, his gloomy travelling companion stands behind him! It is always as in the last moment before the departure of an emigrant- ship: people have more than ever to say to one another, the hour presses, the ocean with its lonely silence waits impatiently behind all the noise-so greedy, so certain of its prey! And all, all, suppose that the past has been nothing, or a small matter, that the near future is everything: hence this haste, this crying, this self-deafening and self-overreaching! Everyone wants to be foremost in this future-and yet death and the stillness of death are the only things certain and common to all in this future! How strange that this sole thing that is certain and common to all, exercises almost no influence on men, and that they are the furthest from regarding themselves as the brotherhood of death! It makes me happy to see that men do not want to think at all of the idea of death! I would fain do something to make the idea of life to us to be more than friends in the sense of that sublime possibility. And so we will believe in our even a hundred times more worthy of their attention.
If I wrote this you'd call me a faggot.

>>4994383
But anon, facts!

>>4994397
>mfw reading that
He was such a bad writer, wasn't he?

>>4994408
Gonna need some sources buddy

>>4994374
> People who accredit Luther quote to Nietzche

>>4994397
that is one of the cutest photos i've ever seen

i bet you wouldn't put a fedora on hegel, who said the same thing, you fat fuckwad.

>>4994397
>If I wrote this you'd call me a faggot.

That's because you live in the 21st century and would be writing as if you lived in the 19th century.

>>4994439

I know right, i just want to snuggle with him in a moderately large sofa while we listen to Richard Wagner together on a gramophone (nohomo)

>>4994442

>>4994429
>luther
srsly?

>>4994397
>pic related
pls tell me i am not the only one that sees this similarity

>>4994463
>dem unfortunate genes

>>4994397
So we're judging our 1800's writers by whether or not they'd get called a faggot on 4chan now?

>So a god has snatched from me my all
>In the curse and rack of destiny.
>All his worlds are gone beyond recall!
>Nothing but revenge is left to me.
>I shall build my throne high overhead, Cold, tremendous shall its summit be.
>For its bulwark - superstitious dread.
>For its Marshal - blackest agony.
>Who looks on it with a healthy eye,
>Shall turn back, deathly pale and dumb,
>Clutched by blind and chill mortality,
>May his happiness prepare its tomb.

>>4994412
His titles were shitty too.

>>4994458
edgy

>>4994462
https://www.pdcnet.org/pdc/bvdb.nsf/purchase?openform&fp=philtheol&id=philtheol_2007_0019_0001_0171_0195

>>4994484
Do you know where I can get it for free?

>God is NOT dead

>>4994505
>god is not not dead

>>4994494
Can't find it anywhere, sorry.

>>4994494
I found this which is sort of similar

http://www2.swgc.mun.ca/animus/Articles/Volume%205/badcock5.pdf

>>4994536
>god is not not not dead

>>4994397
I liked it.

Do most people not enjoy his writings and just appreciate his philosophy?

>>4994604
Most people read him in English which makes it seem a lot more bland and dull. Especially Zarathustra, where most of the nuance is lost.

>>4994618
Is there a recommended translation for his readings, my German is pretty basic. Though I'd love to eventually read it in it's original form one day.

>>4994636
I'd recommend
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, translated by R. J. Hollingdale, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1961
It has a good glossary of terms, solid introduction and footnotes indicating where the translation may be lacking.

>>4994649
Thanks, so this would be a good starting point in general then?

>>4994663
It really depends, because you'll be going back to it after you've read more of his work anyway. But I'd suggest a study guide to accompany it, as the terms can seem vague and they are not defined or explained very often by Nietzsche. You should really read some introductory guides such as this
http://www.amazon.com/Cambridge-Companion-Nietzsche-Companions-Philosophy/dp/0521367670

>10 Nietzche threads on the catalog


what the fuck

>>4994671
Thanks for the help.

>>4994412
wat is translation?

goat is thought

> God is dad

>contemporary German music, which is romanticism through and through and most un-Greek of all possible art forms—moreover, a first-rate poison for the nerves, doubly dangerous among a people who love drink and who honor lack of clarity as a virtue, for it has the double quality of a narcotic that both intoxicates and spreads a fog
>what would a music have to be like that would no longer be of romantic origin, like German music—but Dionysian?
Did jazz and rock answer his question, /lit/?

>>4994673
They found out that they can make fun of atheism and philosophy as a whole by insulting Nietzsche. They have found the loophole. Fact is, you don't even have to read him, just post about him in an ad hominem way, you'll already will get the moral high-ground.

>>4995013
yes indeed
he was on the right spot

>>4994429
This is the sad thing about this quote.
I'm Catholic, but Luther writings on God dying are absolutely based.

What a shame that an edifying quote has been tainted by the fedora-in-chief.

>>4995046
Actually read Nietzsche and you'll realise he dislikes fedorathiests and even
has a lot of respect for the Abrahamic religions.

>>4994445
>spent my teenage years only reading early 20th century modernist literature
>can't fucking escape me writing in that mode by default

>>4994663
Start with The Gay Science then move on to Zarathustra. Then read Beyond Good and Evil and The Genealogy. I'd get the Cambridge editions. Probably best translations and some good supplmentals.

>>4995064
>Called himself the anti-christ
>Claimed Christianity had destroyed humanity's strength.
>Christianity was from the beginning, essentially and fundamentally, life's nausea and disgust with life, merely concealed behind, masked by, dressed up as, faith in "another" or "better" life.
>To
Tweet
" Unpleasant, even dangerous, qualities can be found in every nation and every individual: it is cruel to demand that the Jew be an exception. In him, these qualities may even be dangerous and revolting to an unusual degree; and perhaps the young stock-exchange Jew is altogether the most disgusting invention of mankind. "

>Respected the Abrahamic religions

I supposed, in the way one respects the power of an enemy, he respected them.