/lit/ - Literature

>>19023271

I think Friedrich’s alright

Is there anything from Nietzsche worth reading? Even a passage someone can post? I've read some of his works and he seems like a second rate Schopenhauer. Someone who read Schopenhauer and wanted to outdo him but this is inauthentic and it shows in his works. He is just posturing and trying to invent shit instead of seriously pouring his heart and thought into the words. A lot of people seem to respect him so it might just be me and I haven't read the right stuff.

Not a meme. Genuinely want to acquire such mental fortitude that almost nothing phases me anymore. No mental anguish or fear could penetrate my mental defenses.

Can I acquire such a power from literature itself?

Imagine basing your entire philosophy around someone you hate.

>Wagner is a German nationalist
>I will be anti German nationalism
>Wagner is an antisemite
>I will be a philosemite
>Wagner is a Christian
>I will be anti Christian.
>Wagner likes Schopenhauer
>I will hate Schopenhauer
>Wagner says Beethoven is the greatest melodist ever
>I will say Schubert is the greatest melodist ever
>Wagner likes Homer
>I will hate Homer
>Wagner likes theatre
>I will hate theatre

Imagine basing your entire philosophy around someone you hate.

>Wagner is a German nationalist
>I will be anti German nationalism
>Wagner is an antisemite
>I will be a philosemite
>Wagner is a Christian
>I will be anti Christian.
>Wagner likes Schopenhauer
>I will hate Schopenhauer
>Wagner says Beethoven is the greatest melodist ever
>I will say Schubert is the greatest melodist ever
>Wagner likes Homer
>I will hate Homer
>Wagner likes theatre
>I will hate theatre

>The Gay Science
>Ecce Homo
What did Nietzsche mean by this?

>The learning of many languages fills the memory with words instead of with facts and thoughts, and this is a vessel which, with every person, can only contain a certain limited amount of contents. Therefore the learning of many languages is injurious, inasmuch as it arouses a belief in possessing dexterity and, as a matter of fact, it lends a kind of delusive importance to social intercourse. It is also indirectly injurious in that it opposes the acquirement of solid knowledge and the intention to win the respect of men in an honest way. Finally, it is the axe which is laid to the root of a delicate sense of language in our mother tongue, which thereby is incurably injured and destroyed. The two nations which produced the greatest stylists, the Greeks and the French, learned no foreign languages. But as human intercourse must always grow more cosmopolitan, and as, for instance, a good merchant in London must now be able to read and write eight languages, the learning of many tongues has certainly become a necessary evil; but which, when finally carried to an extreme, will compel mankind to find a remedy, and in some far off future there will be a new language, used at first as a language of commerce, then as a language of intellectual intercourse generally, then for all, as surely as some time or other there will be aviation. Why else should philology have studied the laws of languages for a whole century, and have estimated the necessary, the valuable, and the successful portion of each separate language?

>attacks objective morality and ascribes to a radical perspectivism
>calls other people nihilists
>profits
??????

>Let no one believe that the German spirit has lost for ever its mythic homeland, when it still understands so clearly the voice of the birds which tell of that homeland. One day it will find itself awake in all the morning freshness of an immense sleep. Then it will kill dragons, destroy the crafty dwarf, and awake Brunnhilde—and even Wotan's spear itself will not be able to block its way.

nietzsche said that the true test of our courage and strength as a life affirming people would be to face tragedy in its most devastating sense - untold destruction with rivers of blood and millions of dead - and not to flinch; only then will we have overcome our predicament. sadly, i don't think anyone in europe has what it takes to relive the 20th century. because of this we deserve what's coming our way. each and every day makes me realize what a monumental civilizational catastrophe the defeat of germany was. we will never be able to recover from this. we would need a war in the same scale, no even bigger and more devastating this time, to rectify the trajectory of our future. yet no man today have what it takes to face up to that ultimate test.

meh

>>18631899
>The Journey to Hades.—I too have been in the underworld, even as Odysseus, and I shall often be there again. Not sheep alone have I sacrificed, that I might be able to converse with a few dead souls, but not even my own blood have I spared. There were four pairs who responded to me in my sacrifice: Epicurus and Montaigne, Goethe and Spinoza, Plato and Rousseau, Pascal and Schopenhauer. With them I have to come to terms. When I have long wandered alone, I will let them prove me right or wrong; to them will I listen, if they prove each other right or wrong. In all that I say, conclude, or think out for myself and others, I fasten my eyes on those eight and see their eyes fastened on mine.—May the living forgive me if I look upon them at times as shadows, so pale and fretful, so restless and, alas! so eager for life. Those eight, on the other hand, seem to me so living that I feel as if even now, after their death, they could never become weary of life. But eternal vigor of life is the important point: what matters “eternal life,” or indeed life at all?
- Human, All too Human

Why can't we humans just stick to the basics which is "survive and reproduce"? Every goal can be built around this concept.

Why was he such a brainlet bros

>The learning of many languages fills the memory with words instead of with facts and thoughts, and this is a vessel which, with every person, can only contain a certain limited amount of contents. Therefore the learning of many languages is injurious, inasmuch as it arouses a belief in possessing dexterity and, as a matter of fact, it lends a kind of delusive importance to social intercourse. It is also indirectly injurious in that it opposes the acquirement of solid knowledge and the intention to win the respect of men in an honest way. Finally, it is the axe which is laid to the root of a delicate sense of language in our mother tongue, which thereby is incurably injured and destroyed.

In a few sentences.

>warrior
>leader
>artist
>philosopher
>mystic
>lover

Are these the fundamental qualities that make one an Übermensch? Obviously you could add a "great" before of all these traits.

Anyone got a reading order for this autist?

I was fucking happy believing my true world theory of choice before this cunt came along and ruined it. Now I'm miserable and worried all the time. Fuck you Nietzsche.

Is communism a product of slave morality?

>>18435927
>if the law of excluded middle is true
*blocks your path*

>Wagner sums up modernity. There is no way out, one must first become a Wagnerian.
What did Nietzsche mean by this?

*ting ting ting*

*clears throat*

I have an announcement to make: FUCK NORMIES. Also, FUCK RICHARD WAGNER.

That will be all.