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Nietzsche

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German philosopher referenced in context of whether finding his work illuminating is considered 'rudimentary' by modern writers

Mentions (14)
"He said there are a lot of rules and regulations that aren't enforced and have no reason to exist and that the only people who follow them are natural born slaves and that he has a moral responsibility to not do them. He's been reading Nietzsche lately but this seems completely out of left field."
Boyfriend keeps calling various things as 'slave rules' · u/threhoreheass · ↑885 · 2025-07-04
"My favorite is either Nietzsche or Philip K Dick."
Favorite persons who eventually went mad? · u/OozingQuartzTumor · ↑85 · 2023-05-11
"Hello, I'm back Nietzsche posting because I'm still writing this damn paper and it's helpful to coalesce my thoughts as I'm going. One Nietzschean insight I think people on here would appreciate, is on the poisonous effects of elaborate moral systems over pure aesthetic judgements."
Aesthetics Over Morality · u/EthernetCable123 · ↑72 · 2022-07-23
"I've tried the rational argument route which got me through my nihilist phase. The ideas and concepts shared by philosophers such as Heidigger, Nietzsche or even Sartre and Camus, don't really click for her"
Girlfriend is going through an existential crisis. What do? · u/Holiday_Instance_321 · ↑65 · 2022-11-20
"before she dies, she may yet make it through the SparkNotes of Nietzsche"
"Like we've had a whole generation of nepo baby TV/screen writers doing tossed off snark by calling stuff like finding Nietzsche illuminating 'rudimentary' or stuff like pondering about the universe 'sounding like a freshman philosophy major smoking pot in his dorm'"
"Say something semi-controversial...(broads talk) Damn... Nietzsche.... random art words...."
Fuccboi BPD Art Hoe Playbook · u/[deleted] · ↑35 · 2022-03-12
"Nietzsche would post semi-coherent ramblings on 4chan as a namef*g and become sort of a lolcow"
Think of past writers, if they lived today · u/More_Finding_2373 · ↑35 · 2025-03-27
"It is not surprising that the lambs should bear a grudge against the great birds of prey, but that is no reason for blaming the great birds of prey for taking the little lambs. And when the lambs say among themselves, 'These birds of prey are evil, and he who least resembles a bird of prey, who is r"
Let the sorority girls dance · u/a-drumming-dog · ↑29 · 2024-08-17
"like someone who wanted to be Nietzsche so bad, the equivalent of try hard comments on reddit but like an actual professor/learned gentleman swinging for the fences but not even hitting the ball"
are there pseud philosophers from like the 19th or 20th century I can read? · u/ApprehensiveEntry100 · ↑28 · 2022-05-19
"knows who Nietzsche & Ernst Junger are"
How do I get a red scare gf · u/jarfIy · ↑23 · 2024-06-15
"That dude was really into Plato, Nietzsche & Theosophy and wrote his own cosmological system which he tried to express through his music."
What's your favorite period/composer of classical music? · u/MachiavelliStepOnMe · ↑22 · 2023-10-27
"This quote from Nietzsche very much mirrors my own experiences travelling in the Muslim world (Egypt, Lebanon, Morocco etc.) *Christianity destroyed for us the whole harvest of ancient civilization, and later it also destroyed for us the whole harvest of Mohammedan civilization."
What do you think of Islam? · u/horseloverfat7 · ↑20 · 2020-08-31
"trying to convince myself that this was cool because she was a "hot goth into Nietzsche and French new wave""
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