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“In “being-in-itself” there is nothing of “casual-connection,” of “necessity,” or of “psychological non-freedom”; there the effect does NOT follow the cause, there “law” does not obtain. It is WE alone who have devised cause, sequence, reciprocity, relativity, constraint, number, law, freedom, motive, and purpose; and when we interpret and intermix this symbol-world, as “being-in-itself,” with things, we act once more as we have always acted—MYTHOLOGICALLY.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

“The invention of the laws of number has as its basis the primordial and prior-prevailing delusion that many like things exist (although in point of fact there is no such thing is a duplicate), or that, at least, there are things (but there is no “thing”). The assumption of plurality always presupposes that something exists which manifests itself repeatedly, but just here is where the delusion prevails; in this very matter we feign realities, unities, that have no existence.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits

“When law is no longer a tradition, as in our case, it can only be commanded, or forced; none of us has a traditional sense of justice any longer; therefore we must content ourselves with arbitrary laws, which express the necessity of having to have a law.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits

“The commencement of all great things in the world is thoroughly and continuously saturated with blood.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals

“The nobly born must nobly meet his fate.”
― Euripides

“It is not an exaggeration to identify the flight of the radical left to 'antifascism' as the most successful maneuver of language politics in the twentieth century.”
― Peter Sloterdijk, Rage and Time: A Psychopolitical Investigation

“Due to the superficiality of our intellect, we do indeed live in one ongoing illusion: that means that in every moment we need art in order to live. Our eyes do not permit us to get beyond the forms. But if we ourselves are the ones who have gradually trained our eyes to do this, then we realize that an artistic power holds sway within us. Thus, we see in nature itself mechanisms that protect against absolute knowledge: the philosopher recognizes the language of nature and says: “we need art” and “we need only a limited amount of knowledge”.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Unpublished Writings from the Period of Unfashionable Observations

“In our very democratic, or rather, very plebeian age, "education" and "culture" must be essentially the art of deceiving - deceiving with regard to origin, with regard to the inherited plebeianism in body and soul.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

“Political value of paternity. If a man has no sons, he has no full right to speak about the needs of a single matter of state. He has to have risked with the others what is most precious to him; only then is he bound firmly to the state. One must consider the happiness of one's descendants, and so, above all, have descendants, in order to take a proper, natural part in all institutions and their transformation. The development of higher morality depends on a man's having sons: this makes him unselfish, or, more exactly, it expands his selfishness over time, and allows him seriously to pursue goals beyond his individual lifetime.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“In a world without meaningful authority, all "acts" are coercive.”
― Philip Rieff, Charisma: The Gift of Grace, and How It Has Been Taken Away from Us

“Modern Socialism wants to create a secular version of Jesuitism: everybody a perfect instrument. But the purpose remains to be discovered. What is it all for!”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Man can embody truth but he cannot know it.”
― W.B. Yeats

“It is the natural ambition of the power holder to cast a criminal light on legal resistance and even non-acceptance of its demands, and this aim gives rise to specialized branches in the use of force and the related propaganda. One tactic is to place the common criminal on a higher level than the man who resists their purposes.”
― Ernst Jünger, The Forest Passage

“Not so the forest rebel. He has a tough decision to make: to reserve the right—at any cost—to judge for himself what he is called upon to support or contribute to. There will be considerable sacrifices, but they will be accompanied by an immediate gain in sovereignty. Naturally, as things stand, only a tiny minority will perceive the gain as such. Dominion, however, can only come from those who have preserved in themselves a knowledge of native human measures and who will not be forced by any superior power to forsake acting humanely.”
― Ernst Jünger, The Forest Passage

“Wittgenstein's general goal is similar to Spengler's morphology of cultures: to get clear, i.e. to have a synoptic view, of the basic structures of experience itself. He also shared Spengler's negative view of 20 century culture in general. Twentieth Century philosophy can not be great, because there are no longer any great people. Philosophy requires total dedication, complete ethical integrity, and complete transformation of the human personality. Wittgenstein not only found these virtues lacking in himself, but also among his colleagues at Cambridge.”
― Nicholas F. Gier, Wittgenstein and Phenomenology

“Affirmation of Life even in its strangest and sternest problems; the will to life rejoicing in its own inexhaustibility through the sacrifice of its highest types―that is what I call Dionysian.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“The modern age is the triumph of collective mediocrity.”
― Gustave Le Bon

“The word Fascism has now no meaning except in so far as it signifies ‘something not desirable’.”
― George Orwell, Politics and the English Language

“In Goethe we find a kind of fatalism which is almost joyous and confiding, which neither revolts nor weakens, which strives to make a totality out of itself, in the belief that only in totality does every thing seem good and justified, and find itself resolved.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“The atrophy of individual culture through the hypertrophy of objective culture is one reason for the bitter hatred which the preachers of the most extreme individualism, above all Nietzsche, harbour against the metropolis.”
― Georg Simmel

“Nietzsche may have seen the relentless struggle of the individual as the prerequisite for his full development, the fundamental motive was at work, namely the resistance of the individual to being leveled, swallowed up in the social-technological mechanism.”
― Georg Simmel

“Therefore… is a new nobility needed: to oppose all mob-rule and all despotism.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

“The subject as multiplicity. Pain as intellectual and totally dependent on the judgement "harmful" projected outwards. Pleasure is a kind of pain. The effect is always "unconscious". The inferred and imagined cause is transposed onto what follows in time. The only force that exists produces the same effect as the will: it commands other subjects, which change as a result. The continuous, fleeting, transitory nature of the subject. "Mortal soul". Number as a form of perspective.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“It is one of the greatest achievements of Nietzsche that he confronted science with the problem of the ”
― Oswald Spengler

“No man has the right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training. It is a shame for a man to grow old without seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable.”
― Socrates

“We sainted St. Tammany (King Tamanend III) because he embodied moral perfection and every divine qualification that a deity could possess. I hold him in higher esteem than the saints of the Roman Catholic Church. He'll forever be the patron saint of America.”
― George Washington

“[Spengler] made peace with contemporary Germany, not with the Nazis, for I know of no one who hated them as he did, on lying down, in sleeping, and in rising up!”
― Friedrich Reck-Malleczewen, Diary of a Man in Despair

“Reality lies in the greatest enchantment you have ever experienced.”
― Hugo von Hofmannsthal

“Whoever cannot believe and yet longs for it, whoever knows how miserable the Enlightenment is and yet cannot get rid of it, also knows what hell is. To be banished knowingly into unbelief.”
― Oswald Spengler

“The terrible consequence of “equality”― finally, everyone believes he has a right to every problem. All order of rank has vanished.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche