posted August 09, 2008 11:49 PM         

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Nihilism stands at the door: whence comes this uncanniest of all guests? Point of departure: it is an error to consider "social distress" or "physiological degeneration" or, worse, corruption, as the cause of nihilism. Ours is the most decent and compassionate age. Distress, whether of the soul, body, or intellect, cannot of iteself give birth to nihilism (i.e., the radical repudiation of value, meaning and desirability). Such distress always permits a variety of interpretations. Rather: it is one particular interpretation, the Christian-moral one, that nihilism is rooted." The Will to Power - Nietzsche

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"From the start Christianity was, essentially and fundamentally, the embodiment of disgust and antipathy for life, merely disguised, concealed, got up as the belief in an 'other' or a 'better life'. Hatred of the 'world', the condemnation of the emotions, the fear of beauty and sensuality, a transcendental world invented the better to slander this one, basically a yearning for non-existence, for repose until the 'sabbath of sabbaths' - all of this, along with Christianity's unconditional resolve to acknowledge only moral values, struck me as the most dangerous and sinister of all possible manifestations of a 'will to decline', at the very least a sign of the most profound affliction, fatigue, sullenness, exhaustion, impoverishment of life."
Friedrich Nietzsche, Attempt at a Self-Criticism, 1886, 5

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"What I relate is the history of the next two centuries. I describe what is coming, what can no longer come differently: the advent of nihilism... For some time now, our whole European culture has been moving towards a catastrophe, with a tortured tension that is growing from decade to decade: restlessly, violently, headlong like a river that wants to reach the end, that no longer reflects, that is afraid to reflect." The Will to Power - Nietzsche

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"Today as always, men fall into two groups: slaves and free men. Whoever does not have two-thirds of his day for himself, is a slave, whether he be: statesman, a businessman, an official or a scholar." Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human, 1878, 283

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"Each of us must admit that slaves live more securely and happily than the modern worker in all regards, and that slave labor is very little labor compared to that of the worker." Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human, 1878, 457

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"How often I see it: that blindly raging industriousness brings riches and honour but at the same time deprives the organs of refinement that makes it possible to enjoy the riches and honour; also that this chief antidote to boredom and to the passions at the same time dulls the senses and makes the spirit resistant to new attractions." Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science, 1887, 21

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"An old Chinese said he had heard that when
empires were doomed they had many laws."
The Will to Power - Nietzsche

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posted August 09, 2008 11:51 PM         

I got a copy for myself

How could i miss the one who could have been the greatest buddha the world has known.
I am just exagerrating...may be because I was born in the twentieth century.

posted August 12, 2008 08:06 PM         

I demand people work hours be 4-6 hours/day. No holiday on sunday.

Why do people take rest on sunday?
The earth does not stop going round the sun does it ?

But no, just because some nut said "God created the world in six days and rested on seventh." This stupid tradition of sunday off started. Jesus too never took break on sundays. Perhaps he did advice retreats. Where you break away from your regular mindset and meditate. Equivalent of what modern psychologists advice us to take minimumm of seven days vacation.

Heheh... I wonder what Neeche says about it. I am sure he must be very effective whatever he says. He was trained as one. Did he write in english? Or are we reading German translations ..I think we are. too bad because the poetry is lost in translation. I can see that he used to write poems between prose. Nice.

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The greatest weight.-- What, if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: "This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more; and there will be nothing new in it, but every pain and every joy and every thought and sigh and everything unutterably small or great in your life will have to return to you, all in the same succession and sequence - even this spider and this moonlight between the trees, and even this moment and I myself. The eternal hourglass of existence is turned upside down again and again, and you with it, speck of dust!"
Would you not throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse the demon who spoke thus?... Or how well disposed would you have to become to yourself and to life to crave nothing more fervently than this ultimate eternal confirmation and seal?

from Nietzsche's The Gay Science, s.341, Walter Kaufmann transl

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