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"if you stare into the abyss, the abyss stares back at you" Basically when man, in all his Manifest Destiny, looks out at the wilderness with the feeling that he must conquer it he should also realize that every bear and mountain lion is looking back at him as their next meal
- It's also important to remember that Nietzche's father was an ultra religious Christian and he would have no doubt been well familiar with Jesus' w...
- It has to be read as poetic language. It's evocative, unsettling, and striking, rather than explicit. Fighting monsters making a hero monstrous is...
- The key word in the first sentence is "fights." When one fight, one often justifies one's actions by what it does to one's opponents. People who...
- Think about your own demons and enemies. You do your best to push them to the side. But how far will you go? How long do you ponder a darker sol...
- "He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster" Think of Quint in Jaws. His experience on the USS Indianapolis so af...
- This is an interesting question and, personally, I have also pondered on what Nietzche meant by this quote. This is my interpretation: The more one...
- Maybe it's a retake on the biblical saying, the road to hell is paved with good intentions. As for the abyss gazing back. I guess if the abyss is e...
- In my opinion it has to do with becoming what you fight against, it is in a way unavoidable not to become a monster if you fight a monster. Staring...
- "When you gaze long into the abyss ... " the abyss being the void, the utter arbitrariness and meaninglessness of the universe ... "the abyss gazes...
What do you think Nietzsche meant by "Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And when you look long into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you." (Beyond Good and Evil, 146)? What kind of monster? What does it mean to look into an abyss?
- This is one of the aspects of Nietzsche that is easily overlooked by people who want to see him as simply nihilistic and destructive. For Nietzsche...
- "Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster." If you engage in any kind of activity, you begin to e...
- The monster doesn't fight fair. Ethics and morals mean nothing to the monster as their action is unrestrained. In doing battle how can a person win...
- I believe that the first part of the quote means that one should make sure it doesn't become what it fights. I immediately thought of Robespierre i...
- Considering both sentences of the quote I think it would mean that if in the process of bringing about change you become have become obsessed with...
- Perhaps N is cautioning against trying to change the herd or anything that is beneath you, such as one whose 'self' lacks art, as per another respo...
- I think Nietzsche meant this as both a political and spiritual statement about fear, darkness and light. On an individual level, when we feel push...
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- I think N was trying to say that with the right motives, it is impossible to become the monster that you are fighting, not that he is cautioning ab...
- Prelude
- Chapter I: on The Prejudices of Philosophers
- Chapter II: The Free Spirit
- Chapter III: What Is Religious
- Chapter IV: Maxims and Interludes
- Chapter V: The Natural History of Morals
- Chapter VII: Our Virtues
- Chapter IX: What Is Noble?
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Es scheint, dass alle grossen Dinge, um der Menschheit sich mit ewigen Forderungen in das Herz einzuschreiben, erst als ungeheure und furchteinflössende Fratzen über die Erde hinwandeln müssen
Aphorism 4
1. The falseness of an opinion is not for us any objection to it: it is here, perhaps, that our new language sounds most strangely. The question is, how far an opinion is life-furthering, life- preserving, species-preserving, perhaps species-rearing, and we are fundamentally inclined to maintain that the falsest opinions ... 1.1. Translator: w:Helen Zimmern
Aphorism 6
1. Gradually it has become clear to me what every great philosophy has been: namely, the personal confession of its author and a kind of involuntary and unconscious memoir; also that the moral (or immoral) intentions in every philosophy constituted the real germ of life from which the whole plant has grown. 1.1. 1966 edition, Translator: Walter Kaufmann
Aphorism 9
1. So you want to live 'according to nature?' Oh, you noble Stoics, what a fraud is in this phrase! Imagine something like nature, profligate without measure, indifferent without measure, without purpose and regard, without mercy and justice, fertile and barren and uncertain at the same time, think of indifference itself as power — how could you live according to this indifference? Living — isn't that wanting specifically to be something other than this nature? Isn't living assessing, preferr...
Aphorism 26
1. Niemand lügt soviel als der Entrüstete. 1.1. No one is such a liar as the indignant man.
Aphorism 29
1. Independence is an issue that concerns very few people: — it is a prerogative of the strong. And even when somebody has every right to be independent, if he attempts such a thing without havingto do so, he proves that he is probably not only strong, but brave to the point of madness. He enters a labyrinth, he multiplies by a thousand the dangers already inherent in the very act of living, not the least of which is the fact that no one with eyes will see how and where he gets lost and lonel...
Aphorism 33
1. "There is no other way: the feelings of devotion, self-sacrifice for one’s neighbor, the whole morality of self-denial must be questioned mercilessly and taken to court- no less than the aesthetics of “contemplation devoid of all interest” which is used today as a seductive hose for emasculation of art, to give it a good conscience" 1.1. trns: Walter Kauffmann
Aphorism 54
1. People used to believe in 'the soul' as they believed in grammar and the grammatical subject: people said that 'I' was a condition and 'think' was a predicate and conditioned — thinking is an activity and a subject must be thought of as its cause. Now, with admirable tenacity and cunning, people are wondering whether they can get out of this net — wondering whether the reverse might be true: that 'think' is the condition and 'I' is conditioned, in which case 'I' would be a synthesis that o...
Aphorism 55
1. There is a great ladder of religious cruelty, and, of its many rungs, three are the most important. People used to make human sacrifices to their god, perhaps even sacrificing those they loved the best ... Then, during the moral epoch of humanity, people sacrificed the strongest instincts they had, their 'nature,' to their god; the joy of thisparticular festival shines in the cruel eyes of the ascetic, that enthusiastic piece of 'anti-nature.' Finally: what was left to be sacrificed? In th...
Aphorism 67
1. Die Liebe zu Einemist eine Barbarei: denn sie wird auf Unkosten aller Übrigen ausgeübt. Auch die Liebe zu Gott. 1.1. Translation: Love of oneis a piece of barbarism: for it is practised at the expense of all others. Love of God likewise. 1.2. Source: Projekt Gutenberg-DE 1.3. Translation source: Penguin Classics edition, translated by R. J. Hollingdale, ISBN 014044923X
Aphorism 68
1. "Das habe ich getan" sagt mein Gedächtnis. Das kann ich nicht getan haben — sagt mein Stolz und bleibt unerbittlich. Endlich — gibt das Gedächtnis nach. 1.1. "I have done that", says my memory. "I cannot have done that" — says my pride, and remains adamant. At last — memory yields. 1.2. Source: Gutenberg-DE 1.3. Translation source: Hollingdale
Aphorism 69
1. One has only seen little of life, if one hasn't also seen the hand that mercifully — kills.
Aphorism 187
1. Kurz, die Moralen sind auch nur eine Zeichensprache der Affekte. 1.1. Translation: In short, systems of morals are only a sign-language of the emotions. 1.2. Source: Gutenberg-DE 1.3. Translated by Helen Zimmern
Aphorism 195
1. The Jews — a people "born for slavery" as Tacitus and the whole ancient world says, "the chosen people" as they themselves say and believe — the Jews achieved that miracle of inversion of values thanks to which life on earth has for a couple of millennia acquired a new and dangerous fascination — their prophets fused "rich", "godless", "evil", "violent", "sensual" into one and were the first to coin the word "world" as a term of infamy. It is in this inversion of values ... that the signif...
Aphorism 217
1. Selig sind die Vergesslichen: denn sie werden auch mit ihren Dummheiten "fertig." 1.1. Blessed are the forgetful: for they "get the better" even of their blunders.
Aphorism 227
1. Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?
Aphorism 257
1. Every enhancement of the type "man" has so far been the work of an aristocratic society—and it will be so again and again—a society that believes in the long ladder of an order of rank and differences in value between man and man, and that needs slavery in some sense or other.
Aphorism 261
1. Vanity is an atavism.
Aphorism 287
1. It is some basic certainty which the noble soul has about itself, something which does not allow itself to be sought out or found or perhaps even to be lost. The noble soul has reverence for itself. 2. What is noble? What does the word “noble” still mean to us today? What betrays, what allows one to recognize the noble human being, under this heavy, overcast sky of the beginning rule of the plebs that makes everything opaque and leaden? 3. It is not actions that prove him – actions are alw...
Works about Beyond Good and Evil 1. Leo Strauss#Seminar on Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil (1971-1972)
13 de abr. de 2023 · In this post, we’ll look at the real meaning of one of Nietzsche’s most famous aphorisms: “When you stare into the abyss, the abyss stares back.” What does the phrase “stare into the abyss” mean? The word “abyss” means a deep, almost endless cavern or hole. The literal meaning of this phrase, then, is to stare into ...
His actual quote was “if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.” It’s believed that when Nietzsche said this, he was referring to how we all have darkness within us, but what we choose to do about that darkness can define us and our futures.
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When you stare into the abyss, the abyss stares back. When you look into the abyss, the abyss looks back at you. Incorrect Ways to Use “Stare Into the Abyss” The phrase “stare into the abyss” is not meant to be taken literally. As such, it should not be treated like an instruction to find the nearest hole and stare into it indefinitely.
Strange Musings. 117 subscribers. 59 views 3 months ago. Explore the famous Nietzsche quote: "When you look into the abyss, the abyss also looks into you." Delve into the interplay...
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