{"quotes":[{"text":"Men speak of God’s love for man… but if providence does not come in this hour, where is He then? My conclusion is simple. The Semitic texts from Bronze Age Palestine of which Christianity is comprised still fit uncomfortably well with contemporary life. The Old Testament depicts a God capricious and cruel; blood sacrifice, vengeance, genocide; death and destruction et al. Would He not approve of Herr Hitler and the brutal, tribalistic crusade against Hebrews and non-Christian ‘untermensch?’One thing is inarguable. His church on Earth has produced some of the most vigorous and violent contribution to the European fascist cause.It is synergy. Man Created God, even if God Created Man; it all exists in the hubris and apotheosis of the narcissistic soul, and alas, all too many of the human herd are willing to follow the beastly trait of leadership. The idea of self-emancipation and advancement, with Europe under the jackboot of fascism, would be Quixotic to the point of mirthless lunacy.","author":"Daniel S. Fletcher","tags":["apotheosis","bonhoeffer","bronze-age-palestine","catholic-church","catholic-church-nazi-germany","catholic-fascism","christianity","church-hitler","church-right-wing","crusades","emancipation","extreme-right","fascism","fascism-and-the-church","franco","god","god-vengeance","hitler","italy","jackboot","jackboot-britain","mussolini","nazis-and-the-church","nietzsche","old-testament","old-testament-god","religion","religious","right-wing","spanish-civil-war","the-crusades","tribalistic","vatican","vatican-city","vengeance","vengeful","zealotry","zealots"],"id":4201,"author_id":"Daniel+S.+Fletcher"},{"text":"Both Marx and Nietzsche understood that moral outrage is the last resort of the powerless. That is why Marx refused to issue moral condemnations of capitalism, preferring instead to lay out, calmly and ruthlessly, his reasons for believing that it is destined to be replaced by socialism. And that is why Nietzsche mocks Christianity for portraying its crucified Saviour as bait wriggling on a hook to catch unsuspecting souls.","author":"Robert Paul Wolff","tags":["chrisitianity","karl-marx","nietzsche","socialism"],"id":6084,"author_id":"Robert+Paul+Wolff"},{"text":"A waitress, bringing Finkler more hot water, interrupted Treslove's answer. Finkler always asked for more hot water no matter how much hot water had already been brought. It was his way of asserting power, Treslove thought. No doubt Nietzsche, too, ordered more hot water than he needed.","author":"Howard Jacobson","tags":["nietzsche","power"],"id":7411,"author_id":"Howard+Jacobson"},{"text":"Our faith in others betrays that we would rather have faith in ourselves. Our longing for a friend is our betrayer. And often with our love we want merely to overcome envy. And often we attack and make ourselves enemies, to conceal that we are vulnerable.","author":"Friedrich Nietzsche","tags":["betrayal","faith","friendship","nietzsche","philosophical"],"id":8770,"author_id":"Friedrich+Nietzsche"},{"text":"If two people are so unalike, as you and I, they are pleased when they discover points of agreement. But if they are as alike as Nietzsche and I, they suffer from their differences.","author":"H.F. Peters","tags":["differences","friends","friendship","lou-andreas-salomé","nietzsche","opposites-attract"],"id":16187,"author_id":"H.F.+Peters"},{"text":"To leave is to suffer,to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.","author":"Friedrich Nietzsche","tags":["nietzsche","philosophy-of-life","psychology"],"id":21828,"author_id":"Friedrich+Nietzsche"},{"text":"The darker side of Nietzsche’s ideas was incorporated into the Nazi belief system. Part of the link was straightforward: some things Nietzsche said were pure Nazi doctrine. His comments that ‘The extinction of many types of people is just as desirable as any form of reproduction’ and that ‘the tendency must be towards the rendering extinct of the wretched, the deformed, the degenerate’ could come from any work on racial hygiene. Nietzsche’s central contribution was not these explicitly Social Darwinist views, but his rejection of the Judeo-Christian morality of compassion for the weak. Self-creation required hardness towards oneself: a strong will imposing coherence on conflicting impulses. It also requires hardness on others. Conflicts between the self-creative projects of different people made inevitable the attempt to dominate others. The whole of life was a struggle in which victory went to the brave and to the strong-willed. Noble human qualities, linked with the will to power, were brought out in combat but atrophied in peace. Compassion was weakness, cowardice and self-deception. The Judeo-Christian emphasis on it was poison. In drawing these consequences from his beliefs about the death of God and from Social Darwinism, Nietzsche provided the part of the Nazi belief system which ‘justified’ the cruel steps they took to implement their other beliefs.","author":"Jonathan Glover","tags":["compassion","death-of-god","morality","morality-without-religion","nazism","nietzsche","race","racial-hygiene","social-darwinism","will"],"id":39350,"author_id":"Jonathan+Glover"},{"text":"At the bar on the Favoritenstrasse, Julius the policeman talked to us about dignity, evolution, the great Darwin and the great Nietzsche. I translated so that my good friend Ulises could understand what he was saying, although I didn’t understand any of it. The prayer of the bones, said Julius. The yearning for health. The virtue of danger. The tenacity of the forgotten. Bravo, said my good friend Ulises. Bravo, said everyone else. The limits of memory. The wisdom of plants. The eye of parasites. The agility of the earth. The merit of the soldier. The cunning of the giant. The hole of the will. Magnificent, said my good friend Ulises in German. Extraordinary.","author":"Roberto Bolaño","tags":["desert","giants","memory","nietzsche","prayer","stoicism"],"id":49281,"author_id":"Roberto+Bola%C3%B1o"},{"text":"Everyone who has ever built anywhere a new heaven first found the power thereto in his own hell.","author":"Friedrich Nietzsche","tags":["heaven","hell","nietzsche"],"id":51019,"author_id":"Friedrich+Nietzsche"},{"text":"Wonders amaze me. They can aim wanderlessly in any forest, be it of dark trees or lighted bushes. And apparently, as per what I’ve heard, they can buy stuff that’s on sale, but only if and when they feel wonderfully wonderful. Because otherwise they wouldn’t really be themselves, which would be a problem for them, because if they aren’t what they are - they can’t exist, and if they don’t exist – that makes them invisible and silent to all the wandering people, who may or may not be looking for them to sell themselves to.","author":"Will Advise","tags":["amazed","amazement","amazing","bush","bushes","dark","existence","existing","finding","hearing","jarod-kintz","light","looking","nietzsche","nothing","people","problem","problems","searching","seeking","silent","tree","trees","wanderer","wanderers","wandering","wonder","wonderfull","wonderous","wonders"],"id":51263,"author_id":"Will+Advise"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":83,"pages":9,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}