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Posted by AlanCliffe
Finally reading Walter Kaufmann's Nietzsche bio cover to cover. Maybe it's timely that I'm getting to it now. Nietzsche's take on the masses is that they may have more intelligence than chimpanzees, but it's a difference of degree, not, for most, a ...
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1 month ago1m

Posted by Marionville
“Insanity in individuals is something rare — but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule”…………..Friedrich Nietzsche.
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Feb 13Feb 13

Posted by Marionville
“The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently” ………….Friedrich Nietzsche
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Dec 15, 2024Dec 2024

Posted by AlanCliffe
I hear RFK Jr.'s people are already taking steps to have the polio vaccine outlawed. I wish these people were players in a (darkly) comic opera, or a bad dream, but they are not. What's that Stallone-as-Viet Nam-revanchist line? "I'm your worst ...
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Oct 15, 2024Oct 2024

Posted by Killtheskyfairy
On this date in 1844, Friedrich Nietzsche was born in a town near Leipzig, Germany. “Fritz” was the son of a Lutheran minister who died when Friedrich was 4 and the grandson of two Lutheran pastors. At age 20, he wrote his sister that one could ...
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