This book frustrated me beyond comprehension. I hated him so vehemently for many different reasons:

He whines incessantly about things like the downfall of German intellectualism, yet offers no solution.

He "critiques" a great many other philosopher , writer, or artist, but offers little to no actual insight to the "idol;" he simply alludes to their "stupidity," much like a child with a chip on his shoulder.

His style of writing is disjointed and hard to follow (this could be my translation too tho More...

Can you imagine how much fun Nietzsche must have been at parties?

Guest No. 1: Wow, these deviled eggs are delicious.
Freddy: The devil is a creation of the ultimate mishap upon humankind, and this egg is a desecration of the fruit of the first instinct.

Guest No. 2: Great music, huh?
Fred: I hate it.

And so on.

Obviously, Nietzsche had a titanic mind, and while his immoralisim is in direct conflict with my personal worldview, many of his ideas remain profound a century and a half later. That he d More...

This book's appeal is that it is made as a collection of essays, so it's easier too read,thus recommended to someone who wants to get into Nietzsche.It's excellent for someone who wants to familiarize itself whit Nietzsche's ideas,yet they aren't to well developed so one could still want to read previous Nietzsche books to get more in the meat of Nietzsche's thoughts.Freddy had allot of fun in writing this and this means he can be very fun to read for the right person.So he managed to retain hi More...

This starts off with some almost funny (something even vaguely resembling humor is not something you expect to see in a Nietzsche book) observations from Nietzsche and goes from there into his critiques of Socrates. He later goes into critiques and observations about other philosophers, as well as critiquing Germans and Germany. This book has plenty of what I normally like and dislike about Nietzsche. Dislike, sometimes reading his work is about as exciting as watching paint dry and he comes off More...

Hysterically irritated and contemptuous, this book of aphoristic observations and short philosophical essays is by turns incisive, obvious, witty, morose and self-congratulatory. Nietzsche here is like a hungover Voltaire the morning after a brawl at a gentleman's club. He's relentlessly dour, and his arguments seem at first like a bracing philosophical slap, then like a hilarious rant at a Bohemian open-mike night and finally like a tiresome uncle's after-dinner wheedling. The number of stars i More...

Well, I really wanted to philosophize with a hammer, but I said to myself, 'Who the heck will show me how?' As quickly as the word 'how' fell from my lips into the limitless void, I heard a motorized scooter being fired up and approaching at an alarming speed. (Alarming for a motorized scooter, anyway.) I turned around in my fluorescent yellow booth at Subway, where I was busy 'enjoying' a Veggie Delite [sic], only to see a deranged-looking man with enough mustache for the entire cast of a 1970s More...

The only reason I'm adding Nietzsche's "Twilight of the Idols" is because I had an extremely vivid dream last night that I was in the waiting room of a ruined, wrecked office building (with shattered windows, overturned furniture, chair and couch cushions splayed and torn and ripped, stuffing pulled out and strewn everywhere, bookshelves overturned, desks knifed and broken) and this waiting room was at the endpoint of a very long series of labyrinthine halls, and the receptionist was behind some More...

غروب بت‌ها شامل بخش‌های مختلفی است:
- نکته‌پردازی‌ها و خدنگ‌اندازی‌ها
در این بخش، ۴۴ گزین‌گویه وجود دارد که هیچ‌کدام از ۳-۴ خط بیشتر نیستند.
"فرمولِ من برایِ شادکامی: یک آری، یک نه، یک خطِّ راست، یک هدف ..." [صفحه‌ی ۳۲]
- مسئله‌ی سقراط
همانطور که از اسم بخش برمی‌آید، به در هم کوبیدنِ دشمن ِ دیرین‌اَش، سقراط، می‌پردازد!
- "عقل" در فلسفه
در آغاز این فصل، متذکر می‌شود که آن چیزی که باعث می‌شود حس‌های ما اشتباه کنند، برداشت ِ غلط ِ‌ عقل است، نه خود ِ حس.
بعد هم به این مساله می‌پردازد که تقسیم‌بندی ِ جهان به More...

مسیحی و آنارشیست. – هنگامی که آنارشیست در مقام سخنگوی لایه‌های رو به تباهیِ جامعه سخت کلافه می‌شود و در طلبِ «حق» و «عدالت» و «حقوقِ برابر» می‌آید، این چیزی جز بی‌فرهنگی‌اش نیست که بر او زور می‌آورد و نمی‌گذارد بفهمد به‌راستی درد-اش چی‌ست و فقر-اش از کجاست: از [سرچشمه‌یِ] زندگی... در وجود-اش یک رانه‌یِ علت‌جوییِ نیرومند هست: آخر، این‌که او حالِ خوشی ندارد، گناه‌اش می‌باید به‌گردنِ کسی باشد... آن «کلافگیِ سخت» هم برای‌اش خوب است. هر ناکسِ تو-سری-خورده‌ای از غُرزدن خوش‌اش می‌آید زیرا اندکی کیفِ قد More...

I intend to go back to this book in the future because I wasn't ready for it when I first read it. I feel shamefully under-educated on many authors of pre-20th century philosophy, psychology, ethics and metaphysics, and this book is largely Nietzsche's commentary on those writers. I know of a few from the top level overviews of college textbooks, such as Kant, Plato, and Rousseau, but only a couple of those he mentions have I read.

Nietzsche's opinionated wit surrounds many poignant ideas on the More...

While I disagree with Nietzsche on several fundamental aspects, this should be of no concern when judging the book.
Indeed, I believe that Götzendämmerung is raising valid and thought-provoking criticism more often than not, but it is also written in Nietzsche's typical all-insulting, all-belittling style that - while generally entertaining - at times gets hard to read for me.
The biggest problem with the book is that by reading it you won't learn much, you have to work your way through it, you h More...

مبدئيا الترجمه سيئه جدا لدرجة أنها تحتاج الى ترجمه عربيه للنص العربي المترجم - وددت لو قرأت النسخة الانجليزية :(

الكتاب استكمال لهجوم نيتشه على الجنس البشري - حيث انه ادرك منذ البداية ان المشكله تكمن في الانسان وليس في النص - والغريب هنا انه بدى رومانسيا في بعض ثلث الكتاب الاخير على غير العادة

تحدث عن تدجين - أو ان شئت فقل اصلاح - الكهنه لأخلاق الكائن البشري ابان العصور الوسطى الى ان صار مُذَنّبا ، حيث تم الادعاء باصلاح الانسان ولكنها في الواقع النيتشوي حولته الى انسان ضعيف ، ملتزم ، أخلاقي ، مط More...

كتاب المطرقة فيه يتطرق نيتشه لكل الأصنام ويطرقها بمطرقته النقدية، بداية من فلسفة المثل والمثالية إلى القرن التاسع عشر

يحتاج الكتاب معرفة ولو متواضعة عن الشخصيات موضع النقد والا يستحسن ارجائه .

فى الآخر نيتشه كعادته ضد التحجر وضد الحصار العقلى وضد المدارس الفكرية والمصانع البشرية والتدجين .

The 2 stars are for not understanding it well although I have a philosophical background.I will read it again later.
By the way, many people complain about the translation, which leads me to think that Nietzsche's style of writing is like that.

"Nosotros hemos inventado la idea del fin; en realidad no existe el fin… somos necesarios, somos un pedazo del destino, formamos parte del todo, estamos en el todo; no hay nada que pueda juzgar, medir, comparar y condenar nuestra existencia, pues esto equivaldría a juzgar, medir, comparar y condenar el todo. ¡Y no hay nada fuera del todo! A nadie puede hacerse responsable: […] El mundo no es una unidad ni como mundo sensible, ni como inteligencia; sólo esta es la gran redención, así es como qued More...

*المرأة المتكاملة تقترف الأدب ، كما تقترف خطيئة غير مميتة ، علـى سبيل التجربة .. لكي ترى هل لاحظناها ؟ ولكي نلاحظها !

* ثمـة أشياء أود نهائيا ألا أعرفها قط.. فالحكمة ترسم حدودا حتى للمعرفة

Lo que quieren decir algunos hombres en un libro, a Nietzsche le gusta decirlo en unas cuantas palabras, en aforismos. Es lo que dice el y me parece muy propio e inteligente. Ser el maestro de los aforismos no debe ser fácil y este hombre maneja dicha arte con una maestría inigualable.

Este libro está compuesto de una serie de secciones referentes al pensamiento general de Nietzsche acerca de algunos filósofos que han sido idolatrados en el paso de la historia. Hace declaraciones sobre la manera More...

I'm currently reading an anthology of Neitzsche, and after reading the beautiful and profound product of insanity that is "Zarathustra", it's very strange seeing him go back to the real world and back to his "old ways" of aphorisms and short essays. The most remarkable thing is how he can make an insightful and witty observation, and later on in the same paragraph or page come to a completely absurd conclusion based on next to nothing! You get what you pay for, though: Nietzsche is simultaneousl More...

The introduction by Don Sweet in my Nook edition was a very good organized summary/explication of the book which itself (especially toward the final pages) I found less impressive than the introduction.

Nietzsche is of a social/moral Darwinism bent: the unsuccessful, weak, and poor deserve their fate, deserve to perish, he believes. In the very last pages he restates strongly his ideal (if one may accuse him of having ideals, for he hated idealism) of fati amor: love of fate, the idea that one m More...

Niče je otišao u banju u Italiji da izleči umorno telo, podvrgne se okrepljujućim tretmanima sa psiholozima i malo zaboravi na umne napore. Vratio se jači nego ikad, ozdravljen i spreman da rasturi sve ono dekadentno u istoriji filozofije i civilizacije do tada. Prvi na spisku je bio Sokrat, koji je bio groteskno ružan spolja pa je samim tim morao biti takav i iznutra, u skladu sa naukom fiziognomije tog doba. Razgovori koje je vodio sa psiholozima naveli su ga da svede neke glorifikovane sentim More...

This book is pretty great, for the most part one of the finest works in philosophy before the 20th century.

My interest in Nietzsche and my appreciation of him mostly has to do with his writing on aesthetics, which is remarkably simple, insightful, and clear, like what I'd hoped Wittgenstein's writings on art would be. In the relevant sections contained in this book, he retracts some of his ideas from his earlier writings on aesthetics, mostly for good reason, and sets about providing some dange More...

The amount negativity and cynicism in this book is beyond frustrating.

I get how some people discord disagree with others over opinions and ideas, but this book is different. Nietzsche devotes this book to one purpose and one purpose only; to insult and demean the philosophies and ideas of many other philosophers and doctrines he doesn't approve of. He criticizes Socrates, Plato and plenty of other antiquity philosophers, then he moves on to criticize Christianity and religions, then he starts te More...

Upon reading the reviews here, it surprises me how many people misunderstand what Nietzsche is saying; he is definitely not a nihilist. Rather, he affirms life.

An example would be where he talks of freedom. You gain freedom by affirming life, in spite of the pain and suffering that comes with life (strikes me as Buddhist). Freedom is also gained by mastery of the instinct for ‘happiness.’ Much of what he says applies today- our ethics that support our weaknesses, our educational system that pro More...

-------------- My Review (I read an arabic version : غسق الأوثان and an English one to ensure it's a good translation)

Now I'm discovering Nieztsche, the real one, not like in "Die fröhliche Wissenschaft", he's giving much of him in this book, so much opinions here, so much contradictions, and confusing concepts, anarchy is out there in every word, in every text, he doesn't seem to give a f*** to how a book should be structured, he just writes when he wants, and about what he pleases.
I doubt thi More...

I learned two things from this book. First, Nietzsche believed Socrates to be a chronic valetudinarian. Second, I have no idea what Nietzsche is saying most of the time. And I read it twice. The second time through confirmed my estimation that reading Nietzsche is like reading the ingredients on the back of a can of deodorant. But at least the can of deodorant is useful. It keeps me smelling fresh. All this book does is take up space on my Kindle.

Creo que es siempre muy difícil hablar de Nietzsche, algunas de sus ideas son bastante pesadas de digerir aun así una mente brillante y bastante adelantada para su época, incluso aún para la nuestra.
En este libro (como en todos los demás) no se toca el corazón al momento de dar su opinión con respecto a temas tan delicados como el cristianismo, el arte, la libertad, la moral y la voluntad.
Aunque no puedo decir que comparto en totalidad las ideas del autor, me quedo asombrado con la visión del mu More...

I am most likely going to burn in reader's hell for this rating. I never really liked Nietzsche, his style always seems to influence the weak with rebellion, especially teenagers. His anger with Christianity is so big that I believe this guy is responsible for a third of today's atheists. Especially if you're in high school, this book is going to influence you a lot.

He focuses on how people trust and value much more their non-sensorial traits and how the real sensors are neglected and considered More...

الكتاب يحمل فى مكنونه إحساساً ثورياً كبيرا من جانب الكاتب
هذا الإحساس الثورى لم يستوعب الأفكار البالية - برأى الكاتب - فحسب
و إنما يتصاعد ذلك الحس الثورى ليستوعب الأنماط الحياتية و الشخوص
و القيم المحددة و التى يرفضها الكاتب بقوة و حنق
و لكن برغم هذه الثورة الجلية و التى تلمسها بمجرد البدء فى قراءة الصفحات الأولى من الكتاب ،، إلا أنك لا تجد تفكيكا عميقا - فلسفيا أقصد - يتناسب مع كل هذا الرفض الشديد
أى أنك تجد الصنم - على حد تعبير الكاتب - ينهار أمامك بكل ما تحمله كلمة الانهيار من دلالات و نتائج ،، و More...

yeah, I've read this when I was 7 or 8 years old... no kidding :D I remember my teacher in school asking me if it wasn't too hard for me to understand :D I said "No. I understand perfectly." and I think I truly did. Child's mind is free of all the pressure and views society gives it later and is more able to consume it pure and how it should be, how it is. Adults often search more to it than is necessary.

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لعدة اسباب ومنها
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