Sublime

Nietzsche emphasized this point when he contrasted the originality of his walk-stimulated ideas with those produced by the bookish scholar locked in a library reacting only to other people’s work. “We do not belong,” he wrote, “to those who have ideas only among books, when stimulated by books.”

We can now push aside questions of whether this or that type of morality might be the correct one; dispense with petty ideologies such as utilitarianism or modern liberalism; forego the austerities of Christianity, and start making truth ourselves. Previous philosophers had enquired into human nature; Nietzsche now casts aside all theories and

philosophy is this tyrannical impulse itself, the most spiritual Will to Power, the will to “creation of the world,” the will to the causa prima.

THE MADMAN----Have you not heard of that madman who lit

a lantern in the bright morning hours, ran to the market place,

and cried incessantly: "I seek God! I seek God!"---As

many of those who did not believe in God were standing around

just then, he provoked much laughter. Has he got lost? asked one.

Did he lose his way like a child? asked another. Or

For Freud, the self is – rather than a soul with an eternal nature – a complex amalgam of biological and social impulses, many of them quite ‘Darwinian’ in their primal mechanisms, and the conscious mind is only the surface of the ‘unconscious’, where hidden, largely irrational impulses, repressed desires,

Je ne crois pas, non. Naissance de la tragédie était, après tout, une sorte de thèse ; et dans les deux cas il y a cette incroyable prodigalité, cette profusion d'idées projetées sans la moindre préparation dans les pages, qui rendent le texte à vrai dire presque illisible – ce qui est étonnant, soit dit en passant, c'est que vous teniez à ce