Introducing Nietzsche: A Graphic Guide (Graphic Guides Book 0)

by Laurence Gane

culture is our highest goal, we might ask what becomes of metaphysical theories which speculate on the fundamental nature of reality using reason alone? “It is true, there could be a metaphysical world; the absolute possibility of it is hardly to be disputed. We behold all things through the human head and cannot cut off this head; while the question nonetheless remains what of the world would still be there if one had cut it off.” Human, All Too Human

Aphorism: a short, well-expressed, general truth.)

“He who considers more deeply knows that, whatever his acts and judgements may be, he is always wrong.”

“The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.”

“For I regard profound problems as I do a cold bath – quick in, quick out. That one thereby fails to get down deep enough, fails to reach the depths, is the superstition of hydrophobias … Does a thing really remain unintelligible and unrecognized if it is touched, viewed, illumined simply in passing? Does one absolutely have to sit down on it first, to have brooded on it like an egg?” The Gay Science (1887)

“If it is your destiny to think, give to it divine honours, and sacrifice to it the best you have and what you love the most.” In

“Women have intelligence; men have character and passion.”

“The true man wants two things: danger and diversion. Therefore he wants woman, the most dangerous plaything.”

“There are no moral phenomena at all, only a moral interpretation of phenomena

“Liberality is often merely a form of timidity in the rich.”