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[Anonymous No.15255585]

>It is obvious that in his day-dreams he is a warrior, not a professor; all of the men he admires were military. His opinion of women, like every man's, is an objectification of his own emotion towards them, which is obviously one of fear. "Forget not thy whip"-- but nine women out of ten would get the whip away from him, and he knew it, so he kept away from women, and soothed his wounded vanity with unkind remarks. [...] [H]e is so full of fear and hatred that spontaneous love of mankind seems to him impossible. He has never conceived of the man who, with all the fearlessness and stubborn pride of the superman, nevertheless does not inflict pain because he has no wish to do so. Does any one suppose that Lincoln acted as he did from fear of hell? Yet to Nietzsche, Lincoln is abject, Napoleon magnificent. [...] I dislike Nietzsche because he likes the contemplation of pain, because he erects conceit into duty, because the men whom he most admires are conquerors, whose glory is cleverness in causing men to die. But I think the ultimate argument against his philosophy, as against any unpleasant but internally self-conscious ethic, lies not in an appeal to facts, but in an appeal to the emotions. Nietzsche despises universal love; I feel it the motive power to all that I desire as regards the world. His followers have had their innings, but we may hope that it is coming rapidly to an end.

Neetch permanently and eternally BTFO by Bertrand Russell (pbuh)

[Anonymous No.15255627]

>>15255585
>"Forget not thy whip"-- but nine women out of ten would get the whip away from him, and he knew it, so he kept away from women, and soothed his wounded vanity with unkind remarks.
lmao gottem

[Anonymous No.15255646]

>>15255585
Russell went from a total cuck to a based Nietzsche commentator.

[Anonymous No.15255650]

I say old chap, just *stamps pipe*, stop being concerned with anything and take a seat over there. We can figure this blasted thing out, by taking the thing apart. Now, let me see that book. OH, dear me, that's MY book. Why then, of course it's, as you say, for someone "at least equally interested in the history of philosophy as the actual philosophical thought---and let me finish your sentence----'itself'.
I met Lenin in 1920 when I was in Russia, I had an hours talk with him. His english was quite good. I was less impressed by Lenin than I expected to be. I saw one other thing about him, and he said this, "You see, there are poor peasants and rich peasants. And we stirred up the poor peasants against the rich peasants, and they soon hanged them to the nearest tree, oh ho ho ho!". I didn't much like that
Now another thing. *relights pipe* *licks lip repeatedly like a cat when it stops eating* The white population of the world will soon cease to increase. The Asiatic races will be longer, and the negroes still longer, before their birth rate falls sufficiently to make their numbers stable without help of war and pestilence.... Until that happens, the benefits aimed at by socialism can only be partially realized, and the less prolific races will have to defend themselves against the more prolific by methods which are disgusting even if they are necessary.
I'll say one last thing. Religion, since it has its source in terror, has dignified certain kinds of fear and made people think them not disgraceful. In this it has done mankind a great disservice: all fear is bad. I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive. I am not young and I love life. But I should scorn to shiver with terror at the thought of annihilation. Happiness is nonetheless true happiness because it must come to an end, nor do thought and love lose their value because they are not everlasting. Many a man has borne himself proudly on the scaffold; surely the same pride should teach us to think truly about man's place in the world. Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cosy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigour, and the great spaces have a splendour of their own.
Now, there you old boy, go get yourself a pipe, and smoke it. *takes another puff* Now, did I ever tell you about the one time smoking in fact, SAVED MY LIFE?

[Anonymous No.15255677]

>>15255585
>but we may hope that it is coming rapidly to an end.
Meanwhile a hundred years later and Nietzsche is still being read and studied seriously by professional and amateur philosophers while Russell is only remembered for being an A*glo bugman who enjoyed being a cuckold.

[Anonymous No.15255679]

>>15255585
>"Yes we have no need for whips with women; non at all"
>"My dear lady, why are you micturating on that opera house? N-noooooooo!"

[Anonymous No.15255793]

>>15255585
He doesn't even discredit Nietzsche's philosophy, because he probably wouldn't know how to do it. He just attack the man himself, taking for granted that Nietzsche is the main superior subject of his own thinking, but he's not. He has nothing to do with the Great Warrior type, like Caesar or Napoleon. He's just the prophet of this relentless truth of might and strength, not the man himself.

So fuck you Russell. Your argument also goes against you, as nine out of ten women wouldn't have to take away the whip you don't even possess, as not only are you not a Great Warrior, but neither a Great Thinker like Nietzsche was.