I think it is much more valuable to learn to read a few books, slowly and carefully. — Fooloso4
Of all that is written, I love only what a person hath written with his blood. Write with blood, and thou wilt find that blood is spirit. — Nietzsche
The mass murdering secular excesses of Nazism, Soviet Russia and Mao have been tabled as evidence for this proposition (was Nazism – ‘Gott is Mitt Uns’ really Godless?). Our current culture wars and pessimistic, moribund democracies could readily be constructed as part of this legacy of nihilism.
It’s an old slander against atheism that it offers no foundation and therefore, in a phrase commonly and wrongly attributed to Dostoyevsky – ‘without God anything is permitted’. — Tom Storm
I have a highly speculative theory that whatever you want to call the Symbolic, effectively a kind of mythic order to the world, 'died' with the outset of Modernity, which I think became embodied by the play, Hamlet, and that much of the human catastrophe of the twentieth century has been because of an incapacity to cope with that. It's not that people need the social stability and purpose that religion ostensibly offers, though; it's that they have to cope with having come to awareness that there is none. I don't really agree with Nietzsche's means to do this, but I do think that he does identify the primary plight of the human condition. — thewonder
Nietzsche had philosophies about Life ... but he had not Life. One who have Life, cannot have philosophies about Life ... cannot have any projection towards Life ... Life is existencial ... and ... your so-called projections are always utilitarian ... pseudo-creations ... nothing more ... — Anand-Haqq
Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed". — Anand-Haqq
I did say why ... friend ... — Anand-Haqq
The question is ... Are your consciousness sufficiently open to receive the new ... and put aside ... the old? — Anand-Haqq
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