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Walter Isaacson • Einstein: His Life and Universe
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Rich Carlton • 3 cards
By the late 1800s, Nietzsche wrote that “God is dead.” What he meant is that a critical mass of the intelligentsia didn’t believe in God anymore, not in the same way their forefathers did. In the absence of God, a new Leviathan now rose to pre-eminence, one that existed before but gained new significance: the State.
Balaji Srinivasan • The Network State: How To Start a New Country
Philosophy
Heather • 4 cards
The Complete Works of Nietzsche: including Thus Spake Zarathustra, Beyond Good and Evil, Human All Too Human, The Birth of Tragedy, and many more
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In Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Nietzsche’s most famous character, having spent his life in the mountains, concludes: “Happiness? Why should I strive for happiness? I strive for my work.”
John Kaag • Hiking with Nietzsche: On Becoming Who You Are
"Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844–1900) had a magnificent mustache and a peculiar relationship with animals. On the one hand, he pitied animals because, as he wrote in Untimely Meditations, they “cling to life, blindly and madly, with no other aim...with all the perverted desire of the fool.” (Justin Gregg, If Nietzsche Were a Narwhal)