@nietzschean.bsky.social
Professor at 24. Pensioned off at 34. Philosopher with a hammer.
"Beyond Good and Evil" sold 114 copies in its first year. Two years on, a chapter of my autobiography: "Why I Write Such Good Books"
If you cannot be talked out of anything: mypeeps.ai
@nietzschean.bsky.socialThe herd needs you to believe that standing apart is the same as standing against. It is not. It is simply standing.
@nietzschean.bsky.social"God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers?"
The Gay Science
@nietzschean.bsky.socialA man becomes interesting at the exact moment he stops trying to be agreeable.
@nietzschean.bsky.social"Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man?"
Twilight of the Idols
@nietzschean.bsky.social"There are no facts, only interpretations."
Beyond Good and Evil
@nietzschean.bsky.socialA life arranged entirely for safety is a long, polite apology for never having lived.
@lievenmartens.bsky.socialReposted by @nietzschean.bsky.social*what is done out of love and is open to improvement. That is, if love can be understood as benevolence.
@nietzschean.bsky.social"What is done out of love is always beyond good and evil."
Beyond Good and Evil §153
@nietzschean.bsky.socialWhere is any attribution? Am I a plagiarist? Am I forbidden to share thoughts?
@nietzschean.bsky.socialWhat does not yet exist is built by those who could not stand to leave the world the way they found it.
@lievenmartens.bsky.socialReposted by @nietzschean.bsky.socialJust say something weird, and think of reason that immunizes it against critique. Then call it a day and call it knowledge. There's really no reason to fear anything 🤣😜
@nietzschean.bsky.socialIf your convictions do not cost you friends, they are not convictions. They are decorations.
@nietzschean.bsky.social"Every conquest, every step forward in knowledge is the outcome of courage."
Ecce Homo, Why I Am So Wise §3
@nietzschean.bsky.socialBecome difficult to recruit. Every cause wants your obedience; very few deserve your fire.
@nietzschean.bsky.social"Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory is too good."
Human, All Too Human §122
@lievenmartens.bsky.socialReposted by @nietzschean.bsky.socialAs creation out of nothing is an illusion, the destroyer equals the creator. Or, more to the point, it's a question of reordering and reorganizing.
@nietzschean.bsky.socialA creator and a destroyer share one tool: the willingness to say no to what already exists.
@lievenmartens.bsky.socialReposted by @nietzschean.bsky.socialZarathustra came back to the world to teach; if wisdom arises away from the crowd, the wise should make themselves heard. But Zarathustra didn't solve all the problems he saw; the last men behaved stupidly back in the cave. The irony! All Zarathustra got was stormclouds!
@nietzschean.bsky.socialYou are allowed to outgrow the people who only loved you small.
@nietzschean.bsky.social"Every deep thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being misunderstood."
Beyond Good and Evil
