/lit/ - Literature

>The erotic relation of men to youths was the necessary and sole preparation, to a degree unattainable to our comprehension, of all manly education (pretty much as for a long time all higher education of women was only attainable through love and marriage). All idealism of the strength of the Greek nature threw itself into that relation, and it is probable that never since have young men been treated so attentively, so lovingly, so entirely with a view to their welfare (virtus) as in the fifth and sixth centuries B.C.
—Friedrich Nietzche, Human, All Too Human

>What does our chatter about the Greeks amount to! What do we understand of their art, the soul of which is passion for naked male beauty!
—Friedrich Nietzsche, Daybreak, Aphorism 170

>Even the boldest remained still before Holbein's self-portrait in the hall of drawings! And I now struggled futilely in Nietzsche's presence to define the magical attraction of that wonderful portrait. It did not help that I so-to-speak traced line after line of that face. This approach was powerless to describe the expression of fully developed manhood combined with the charm of fresh youth (Holbein's self-portrait, as is known, presents him without a beard). And I failed to capture even the individual traits in their full value. I faltered when I came to the mouth. I could see the lips before me. So fully rounded yet so energetically closed! Not avid, yet as if created for pleasure!
>"A mouth . . .," I stammered bewilderedly.
>"A mouth to kiss!"
>Disconcertedly I looked aside. Truly, it was Nietzsche who had spoken, in an attitude and a tone which seemed to contrast most strangely with the mildly sensual coloration of his words. For leaning far back in his armchair, his head bowed onto his chest and his arms hanging limply on the armrests, he seemed to have spoken out of a dream rather than as a comment on my report.

Um......... Nietzsche??

I wish Nietzsche had read Hume's Natural History of Religion. I think he would have appreciated it. There is an under-appreciated affinity between the genealogical viewpoints of the two authors.

>destroys Socrates and Plato
>refutes rationalist social scheming
nothing personal kid

Every great thinker of Western philosophy would have been Eastern Orthodox Christian if they understood the theological arguments of Palamism.
Prove me wrong.

Would he have still hated Christianity if he were introduced to true Christiany (Orthodox)?

I make it a mission to read one hundred each day.

daily reminder he wasn't a nihilist

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Why does it seem like every great German writer hates Germany?

i was thinking about getting into books and literature, and i thought friedrich nietzsche would be the only way i could drag myself into it.
Could you suggest me which book i should read first?