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Published: Sep 29, 2012
Author: Nietzsche
Post Date: 2012-09-29 13:31:47 by Armadillo
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Ten favorite quotes from Friedrich Nietzsche (with commentary from me).

1. "All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth."
(This explains politics)

2. "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages."

3. "We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh."

4. "That which does not kill us makes us stronger."
(or screws you up mentally)

5. "When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you."

6. "Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent."

7. "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy."
(maybe this is why most of my friends are women)

8. "All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking."
(many of my great ideas were conceived while showering or sitting on a toilet)

9. "The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything."

10. "Many people wait throughout their whole lives for the chance to be good in their own fashion."

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#1. To: Armadillo (#0)

Nietzsche was unfortunately a pencil-necked geek whose one true love, Lou Salome, wouldn't sleep with him even once. He got her back by getting syphilis and going insane.

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#3. To: Turtle (#1)

Nietzsche was unfortunately a pencil-necked geek

We'll leave it to you to say something truly insipid about the man.

Although Nietzsche was chronically ill growing up, he did qualify as a cavalryman in an artillery batallion. He broke several ribs vaulting onto a horse and was cashiered as disabled. Nevertheless, when the Franco-Prussian War broke out in 1870, he volutunteered as a medic which was no goddamned picnic. He came out of the war with diptheria and dysentary before he was discharged.

Nietzsche had a rigorous classical education and was a damned fine stylist in his native language. and his poetic power in the German language stands on a par with, say, Shakespeare in English in human insight and poetic expression.

Anyway, anyone with a doctorate in classical philology from a German university was a hard ass scholar, for that was no picnic either. They didn't qualify "geeks."

randge  posted on  2012-09-29 22:55:35 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


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