February 2012
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Nietzsche - Fear Limits Your Freedom
“Fear is the mother of morality.”
- Nietzsche
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Nietzsche - Create Yourself or Be Yourself
“Morality is for the masses. Follow your own inner law. Become what you are.”
- Nietzsche
This quote is originally attributed to Pindar, but Nietzsche used it to explain his concept of amor fati, or the love of your own fate. It is the individual’s ability to create a masterpiece out of their life and become who they truly are.
However, according to some scholars, Nietzsche mistranslated...
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Resist a Shallow Existence
“…there are moments where one has to choose between living one’s own life, fully, entirely, completely—or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence that the world and its hypocrisy demands.”
- Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere’s Fan
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Nietzsche - The Wicked Have More Fun
“The wicked enjoy a hundred kinds of happiness of which the virtuous have no inkling…”
- Nietzsche, Daybreak
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Nietzsche - Sex is Overrated, Remember to be...
“Men idolize sex so much because they have had so little of it and have never been allowed to eat their fill of this food: thus it became for them ‘food of the gods’. Any world where sex was universally obtained would be a painful and ludicrous state of affairs…. Sex would be cursed as much as selfishness had been in former times. And anyone left with enough time to dream would dream of...
December 2011
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Law #25 Re-create Yourself
“Do not accept the roles that society foists on you. Be the master of your own image rather than letting others define if for you.”
“Even appearing natural requires art—in other words, acting. Nurture and enjoy the protean power of the actor; play many roles. If that is beyond you, at least forge a new identity, one of your own making. The Promethean task of the powerful is to...
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Nietzsche - Control How Others Interpret You
“All things are subject to interpretation. Whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power, not truth.”
- Nietzsche
Society’s perception of you may be completely out of balance with who you truly are. This is so because it’s impossible for anyone to know what makes you tick. Take the reins back. Control others’ perception of you. That is...
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Nietzsche - Take Off the Mask
“The mask is thrown away in solitude. He who is evil is at his most evil in solitude: which is where he is at his best…”
- Nietzsche, Daybreak
We often wear masks in our daily lives: a mask for work; one for friends; another for our parents. It is only in complete solitude that we may obsess over our darkest desires. And even then, some make their lives so that no such...
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A Sonnet of Revolt
Life—what is Life? To do, without avail
The decent ordered tasks of every day:
Talk with the sober: join the solemn play:
Tell for the hundredth time the self-same tale
Told by our grandsires in the self-same vale
Where the sun sets with even, level ray,
And nights, eternally the same, make way
For hueless dawns, intolerably pale.
And this is life? Nay, I would rather see
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