Nietzsche: “O sancta simplicitas!”
“O sancta simplicitas! What strange simplification and falsification mankind lives in! One can never cease to marvel once one has acquired eyes for this marvel! How we made everything around us bright and free and easy and simple! How we have known not to bestow on our senses a passport to everything superficial, on our thoughts a divine desire for wanton gambolling and false conclusions! – how we have from the very beginning understood how to retain our ignorance so as to enjoy an almost inconceivable freedom, frivolity, impetuosity, bravery, cheerfulness of life, so as to enjoy life! And only on this firm and granite basis of ignorance has knowledge hitherto been able to rise up, the will to knowledge on the basis of a far more powerful will, the will to non-knowledge, to the uncertain, to the untrue! [...]”
~ Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
(Oct. 15, 1844-Aug. 25, 1900)
German philosopher and classical philologist
“Jenseits von Gut und Böse [Beyond Good and Evil]“
(1886): Part 2.24
~cave canem~ vvvv
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It would have been better if you had actually posted a philosophical contemplation of your own instead of simply quoting a well known philosopher. What do you think this passage means and what do you think about it? Surely you’ll agree philosophy is more than just knowledge of philosophy. Everyone can read, a minority will actually understand what they read and few can actually think on their own.Reading Nietzsche can teach you a lot (even or perhaps especially when you disagree with him), but you must be willing to work for it.
Hello Zara, thank you for your input. Check out the “My Thoughts, Aloud” category, these are all quotes and thoughts 100% of yours truly.
The blog started as just a collection of quotes I liked and evolved into whatever amalgamation it is now.