/lit/ - Literature

>>15639483
Nietzsche criticized him for pandering to Christians and women in Parsifal and blamed him for radicalizing the German youth with his populism and antisemitism. Also, he made fun of Nietzsche's music.

>>12643956
He doesn't fit in either wing, because the whole game of politics is part of civilization, which he opposed. His heroes were men like Napoleon and Borgia, not because they were rebels, revolutionaries, or criminals, but because they nobly opposed the civilization within which they found themselves while alive, finding it inadequate for their aims and an unholy assembly of the weak over the strong. Some of his values are occasionally shared by people on the right, some of them occasionally on the left, and that's about all you can say — I wouldn't identify him as either of them just for that.

>>11830787
I know it's not a real quote but it reminds me of this one:

>What do we long for when we see beauty? To be beautiful. We think much happiness must be connected with it. But that is an error.

>>10434391
The weak must fear the strong.

>Punch a Nietzschean
>He emits golden laughter and tells me he loves me, and indeed all his enemies, whilst beating me to death

Damn take a chill pill, Zarathustra.

>>8779274

By Nietzsche's own estimation:

>Caesar
>Napoleon
>Goethe
>Frederick the Great (maybe)
>Borgia

That's about it.

If Schopenhauer didn't go in the direction of pessimism (bordering on nihilism), then he would have almost certainly qualified too.

>>8540579

>would he betray his family and friends?

>>8532373

>This is what uneducated plebs actually think
>Implying you should ever lower yourself to the rabble's level, rather than demand they raise themselves to yours