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What's your favourite Nietzsche's work. For me its Genealogy of Morals. His point about slave morality is still applicable to today's society and changes your worldview once you read it.

>> No.22134364

>>22134359
The one where he tore frog posters apart

>> No.22134369

>>22134364
Nietzsche was profrogs

>> No.22135606

>>22134359
Nietzsche's theory is confused. He thinks that in societies engulfed in slave morality the weak rule over the strong, but someone who is ruled is not strong.

>> No.22135824

>>22134359
the one where he talks about the advantages of being gay

>> No.22136100

>>22134359
The Gay Science
One of my favorite sections:

379
The Fool’s Interruption

It is no misanthrope who has written this book; nowadays the hatred of man is too expensive. To hate man as one did previously, Timonically, completely, without qualification, with one’s whole heart, from an utter love of hatred – to that end one would have to renounce contempt – and how much subtle enjoyment, how much patience, how much amiableness, even, do we owe to our contempt! Moreover, in this we are the ‘elect of God’: subtle contempt is our taste and our prerogative, our art, our virtue perhaps, we, the most modern of the moderns!

Hatred, on the other hand, equalizes, places on the same level – in the end, hatred shows respect; there is fear in hatred, a great deal of fear. However, we fearless ones, we who are the most intellectual men of the age, know our advantage well enough to live without fear as the most intellectual of this age. We are hardly likely to be beheaded, locked up or banished; we are not even likely to have our books banned or burned.

The age loves intellect, it loves us and needs us, even when it is given to understand that we are artists of contempt; that all dealings with people make us shudder; that all our mildness, patience, humanitarianism and civility cannot persuade our nose to dismiss its prejudice against the proximity of man; that we love nature all the more when it is least humane, and art precisely when it is the artist’s flight from man, or his mockery of man, or his mockery of himself …

>> No.22136107

>>22134364
That would be The Gay Science section 359:

>Here is an ill-constituted man, who does not have enough spirit to rejoice, but just enough culture to know it; bored, weary, filled with self-contempt; unfortunately cheated by some inherited fortune out of the last consolation, the ‘blessings of labour’, the self-forgetfulness in the ‘daily toil’; a man who is thoroughly ashamed of his existence – perhaps he harbours a few small vices – but who cannot help indulging his taste for books he has no business reading or more intellectual companionship than he is able to assimilate, making himself vain and irritable in the process: such a thoroughly poisoned man – because for such ill-constituted men, spirit becomes poison, culture becomes poison, possessions become poison, solitude becomes poison – ultimately finds himself in a habitual condition of vengefulness, determined to avenge himself on everything …

>> No.22136361 [DELETED] 

>>22136107
he just like me fr