Nietzsche lived and died in obscurity. Only 120 copies of Human, All Too Human were sold. Yet he became 20th century’s most influential thinker and is now a perennial bestseller. On his 122nd Death Anniversary, let’s dig into his insights on beating oblivion & creating a LEGACY👇🏻
Nietzsche defines a “fortunate author”:
One who successfully puts all his “life-giving, invigorating, uplifting, enlightening thoughts and feelings" in his books
Like all mortals he’ll one day become “gray ash”
But his inner fire will be “rescued and carried forth everywhere”
One who successfully puts all his “life-giving, invigorating, uplifting, enlightening thoughts and feelings" in his books
Like all mortals he’ll one day become “gray ash”
But his inner fire will be “rescued and carried forth everywhere”
The writer who transmits all his nobility and courage into his work
Feels a “malicious joy” when he sees "his body and spirit slowly broken into and destroyed by time”
It’s like watching a thief break into a safe that’s been emptied - whose “treasures have been rescued”
Feels a “malicious joy” when he sees "his body and spirit slowly broken into and destroyed by time”
It’s like watching a thief break into a safe that’s been emptied - whose “treasures have been rescued”
100,000 copies of Thus Spoke Zarathustra were given to German soldiers in WW1
While Shakespeare gets adapted in every language
And Tarzan has been made into films more than any other literary figure
It’s TSZ that's been fuel for starved, bloodied soldiers in the midst of death
While Shakespeare gets adapted in every language
And Tarzan has been made into films more than any other literary figure
It’s TSZ that's been fuel for starved, bloodied soldiers in the midst of death
Nietzsche (correctly) predicted that he would be “born posthumously”
In his autobiography Ecce Homo
He wrote:
“One day my name will be associated with the memory of something tremendous - a crisis without equal on Earth.”
But what’s the exact nature of this crisis?
In his autobiography Ecce Homo
He wrote:
“One day my name will be associated with the memory of something tremendous - a crisis without equal on Earth.”
But what’s the exact nature of this crisis?
On the first page of The Will To Power, Nietzsche writes:
“What I relate is the history of the next 2 centuries. I describe what is coming, what is inevitable: the rise of nihilism.”
Atomized lifestyles, a vibe of meaninglessness, falling birthrates: all offshoots of nihilism
“What I relate is the history of the next 2 centuries. I describe what is coming, what is inevitable: the rise of nihilism.”
Atomized lifestyles, a vibe of meaninglessness, falling birthrates: all offshoots of nihilism
Nietzsche's *diagnosis* is more popular but his *treatment* is useful too
Few realize that Nietzsche’s “Eternal Recurrence” idea is a response to God’s Death
The idea is: Your life must be relivable endless times without you getting ashamed, bored, regretful
How God comes in:
Few realize that Nietzsche’s “Eternal Recurrence” idea is a response to God’s Death
The idea is: Your life must be relivable endless times without you getting ashamed, bored, regretful
How God comes in:
Without God, there’s no one to look upto
No one to judge you for being lazy, weak, pathetic
So Nietzsche says: Eternity is your judge
If every cowardly decision, weak move, and wasted hour clung to you forever -
You’ll make better decisions
No one to judge you for being lazy, weak, pathetic
So Nietzsche says: Eternity is your judge
If every cowardly decision, weak move, and wasted hour clung to you forever -
You’ll make better decisions
Nietzsche is the Philosopher-Prophet of Modernity
RIP
He lived a great life, wrote great books, and is now the thinker of choice for every human interested in power, beauty, and nobility
RIP
He lived a great life, wrote great books, and is now the thinker of choice for every human interested in power, beauty, and nobility
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Pls RT👇🏻
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