For Nietzsche, a great work of art can either veil the horror of reality or – better yet – help us face it.
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Nietzsche both wished he was as stupid as a cow so he wouldn’t have to contemplate existence, and pitied cows for being so stupid that they couldn’t contemplate existence.
The German thinker wrote both treatises and songs. He approached each form of expression with the same level of interest.
The death of God didn’t strike Nietzsche as an entirely good thing. Without a God, the basic belief system of Western Europe was in jeopardy.
Safety through technology is no bad thing—Nietzsche himself sought doctors and medicines throughout his life—but it can become pathological.
The infamous misogynist had some profound insights on romance.
"It is more human to laugh at life than to lament it."
One god stands for order, logic, and reason. The other stands for chaos, madness, and drunkenness. Nietzsche thinks you need both.
The question of anti-Semitism, Nazism, and a particularly nasty sibling haunted Nietzsche's legacy.
That Nietzsche quote might not mean what you think it does.
We often laugh at inappropriate things, but not when we are emotionally invested. Laughter cannot be serious. So, can we ever laugh at death?
Commodus lived the anti-Stoic life, pursuing lust, narcissism, and self-indulgence.
Dancing, for Nietzsche, was another way of saying Yes! to life.
Wander into the deep recesses of the mind and never return the same with these existentialist books.
In the philosophy of Star Wars, the Sith are evil because they surrender to passion. But is a life of total rationality a “good” life?
A famous thought experiment from the 1970s is more relevant today than ever before.
Can we affirm everything in life, the beauty and the suffering? Nietzsche says yes.
If you had perfect foreknowledge of the blessings and tragedies that will come in your life, would you make the same choices anyway?
Philosopher Slavoj Žižek argues that we often don't truly want to obtain what we think we desire.
We value human life in a way that assumes we possess a sacred something not found in beings like lambs, turkeys, or mosquitoes.
Do right and wrong depend on culture, or does morality transcend place and time?
A growing body of research shows that religious people seem to enjoy more psychological well-being compared to others.
"For every PhD there is an equal and opposite PhD."
Non-Western thought is vast and ancient, so why don't some consider it philosophy?
"The Da Vinci Code" popularized the idea that Christians stole much of their theology. It's wrong, especially regarding Christmas.
This world map shows how the rest of the world LOLs. In France, you MDR; in China, you 23333.
Why does hearing sad music feel so good?
Socrates is considered the "Father of Western Philosophy," but perhaps that honorific should go to Plato.
Nihilism is not a choice or intellectual commitment, but a feeling that simply arrives.