The very word “Christianity” is a misunderstanding — in truth, there was only one Christian, and he died on the cross.
Friedrich Nietzsche
2015 – Edited 2021
Tag: Friedrich Nietzsche
All cultures operate with ideology, so ubiquitous as to be invisible to those within, but blatant to those without. This is apparent when one looks upon the seemingly absurd virtues and vices of past ages and far places.
Peter Sjöstedt-H
2018
People say, “Artist, study nature!” But it is no small matter to develop what is noble out of what is common, beauty out of what lacks form.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
2020
As long as I live I shall not allow myself to forget that I shall die; I am waiting for death so that I can forget about it.
Emil Cioran
2021
Great joys come from contemplating noble deeds.
Democritus
2021
One has attained to mastery when one neither goes wrong nor hesitates in the performance.
Friedrich Nietzsche
2021
Life creates itself in delirium and is undone in ennui.
Emil Cioran
2016
I teach you the Übermensch. Man is something to be surpassed. What have you done to surpass man?
Friedrich Nietzsche
2018
“The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.”
H.P. Lovecraft
2020
“The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it. Power is what all messiahs really seek: not the chance to serve. This is true even of the pious brethren who carry the gospel to foreign parts.”
H.L. Mencken
2018
Parallel Aesthetics 