Friedrich Nietzsche - Blog Posts

why do I choose the most depressing paper topics. Like I could be talking about AI or human nature or maybe even free will. But no. I choose Nietzsche. Why do I torment myself so.

Thomas Merton, Thoughts in Solitude

“The moral man is a lower species than the immoral, a weaker species; indeed—he is a type in regard to morality, but not a type in himself; a copy, a good copy at best—the measure of his value lies outside him. I assess a man by the quantum of power and abundance of his will: not by its enfeeblement and extinction; I regard a philosophy which teaches denial of the will as a teaching of defamation and slander— I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche, The Will to Power

My final art piece of high school discussing the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy (1872) and how this theory on the imbalance of Apollonian and Dionysian tragedy is very relevant in today’s modern society.

Without music, life would be a mistake.

-Friedrich Nietzsche

“You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.”

-Friedrich Nietzsche

Think about the difference between a classical Greco-Roman statue and a roughly carved wooden mask. The Greco-Roman statue is both realistic and idealizing, rational, and dreamlike. Apollonian. The mask is rough and emotive, messy, affecting us on some level other than our rational mind... Dionysian. Statue = Euripides, Mask = Sophocles

listened to medea today and i gotta say. nietzsche's beef with euripides is truly crazy. like. i mean antigone was a good play but medea was a really good play. seems unambiguously to be an advancement of the art form. also idk, is it really meaningfully more apollonian and less dionysian than previous works. like. i means it not clear what he means by those words basically at all (i see this everywhere glossed as like "order" vs "chaos" and.... maybe that's part of what he means? it's clearly not all of what he means. well actually what he means is "of the nature of the narrative section of the play" and "of the nature of the chorus section of the play" but what that nature is...). medea is calculating but she's clearly passionate, and i feel like the way she takes everything from everyone has a very dionysian feel, the...abandonment of care, the willfullness. idk if this is anything. the chorus IS much more pedestrian and less spooky. so. he's right there

ANYWAY i think the most parsimonious explanation is "nietzsche hates slaves, and doesnt like that theyre portrated as people in this play" (he specifically mentions the centering of slaves as a bad thing! because he thinks it makes the play more pedestrian, i guess? but idk, it throw medea's otherworldliness into sharp relief! if the volume of eveyry character is turned up, you cant hear them in the din)

Friedrich Nietzsche said...

Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes. ~~ This is true, but is it true for friendship? I don't know. I'm curious as to what others may think about this.

It aches, my sweet Lord! And that's my confession. I won't repent for my mania, it's your sane men, they've stung me with their sanity.

-Her Schrodinger's Cat

I dance on my own grave. Don't touch me, I'm a sacred fool. And I'm the happiest.

Her Schrodinger's Cat, Mania 2003