Ecce homo
by Friedrich Nietzsche · first published 1908
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…sharp, bitter, and ultimately soaring defense of the individual against the conformity of the compact majority, without the didacticism and moralizing that marred Rand's later novel, Atlas Shrugged. Ecce Homo, Nietzsche (Kaufmann translation). Nietzsche's last full work, completed days before his descent into insanity. Shatteringly beautiful prose that will rearrange your soul, from one of history's most original…
on “Ask HN: Please name two of your most favorite books.” ↗…and it's effects on the human spirit entirely clear to us, people actually thought their personal experience and sensitivity to particular substances were relevant! Imagine that! /sarcasm Nietzsche's Ecce Homo has similarly interesting musings on the subject of diet and exercise.
on ““The Pleasures and Pains of Coffee”” ↗…them I say. Finally I would like to be clichéd and recommend anything by Nietzsche except for Thus Spake Zarathustra even though he himself considered it his best work and I would especially recommend Ecce Homo by him because it is a summation of his previous works by his own hand. Nietzsche was the supreme stylist and ruthlessly honest and fearless. Also I'd recommend A Short Treatise on the Great Virtues by…
on “Ask HN: Best Philosophical Books?” ↗…Wired Magazine excerpt of it, that I knew computers and creating software would definitely, without a doubt, be the driving force of the rest of my entire life. I haven't regretted it for a moment. Ecce Homo by Friedrich Nietzsche. I picked it up knowing nothing but Nietzsche was the progenitor of the saying 'that which does not kill you makes you stronger' (which is a radically misunderstood saying that…
on “Ask HN: What books changed the way you think about almost everything?” ↗Bostrom is not a visionary. He's just a philosopher. Nietzsche, Ecce Homo "Philosophy, as I have so far understood and lived it, means living voluntarily among ice and high mountains — seeking out everything strange and questionable in existence, everything so far placed under…
on “How Long Before Superintelligence? (1997)” ↗…a new prophet, Zarathustra, we need a new misunderstood, brooding, wishes-he-were-a-poet grimbad philosopher. Nietzsche is great, but the motions of the ages are even startig to catch up to him, too. Ecce Homo is still interesting and somewhat relevant, but all of his other works are full of ideas that hae been sufficiently adopted or misappropriated by society at large as to be faux pas or bland. His war against…
on “Nietzsche’s Eternal Return” ↗…years. But before you atheists run up your flags of triumph, he said, think of the implications. "The story I have to tell," wrote Nietzsche, "is the history of the next two centuries." He predicted (in Ecce Homo ) that the twentieth century would be a century of "wars such as have never happened on earth," wars catastrophic beyond all imagining. And why? Because human beings would no longer have a god to turn…
on “Ketamine's effect on depression may hinge on hope” ↗…Nietzsche seems very fond - it's against the church and priests and their corruption of the original christian message. I thought it made a lot of sense. (As do all of Nietzsche's books - well ok, parts of Ecce Homo sound loony) Reading you again.. you're explaining Mencken's supposed racism by that he was a Nietzschean? Hmm. I don't see the connection. Oh, is it a Nazi-Nietzsche connection? Well, read Nietzsche…
on “The Anti-Bamboozler: Early writings of H. L. Mencken” ↗…But Heidegger and Nietzsche were undeniably hugely influential on philosophy, so they belong on that list as much or more than many of the other people listed, who were of minor significance, at best. Ecce Homo was written shortly before Nietzsche went insane, with chapter titles like "Why I am So Wise", "Why I am So Clever", and "Why I Write Such Excellent Books". I wouldn't take what he wrote there at face…
on “Ask HN: Learning about philosophy” ↗It depends where you start with Nietzsche. If your first encounter with his work is Thus Spake Zarathustra or perhaps Ecce Homo, you're going to be confused. In contrast, On the Genealogy of Morality, The Antichrist, Beyond Good and Evil are clear, lucid, and beautifully written (whether you agree with them is another matter).…
on “C.S. Lewis on the Reading of Old Books” ↗From Nietzsche's Ecce Homo: "So wenig als möglich sitzen; keinem Gedanken Glauben schenken, der nicht im Freien geboren ist und bei freier Bewegung, in dem nicht auch die Muskeln ein Fest feiern." "Remain seated as little as…
on “Building a Thinking Room” ↗Yes, but how did it Plato, Aristoteles and the other brains back then? And, why is Nietzsche talking bullshit in Ecce Homo? 'Nothing should be eaten between meals, coffee should be given up — coffee makes one gloomy.' Hm, something really dark and deep is brewing up here... You never drink the same cup of coffee twice. But…
on “The Fuel of Philosophers” ↗It reminds me of Nietzsche's autobiography Ecce Homo, which was at least somewhat self-aware of its pomposity, titling chapters as: 1 – Why I Am So Wise 2 - Why I Am So Clever 3 – Why I Write Such Excellent Books, Part 1 4 – Why I Write Such Excellent…
on “Stephen Wolfram – 4-Hour Conversational Documentary on My Entire Arc of Life [video]” ↗Nietzsche intended to say the radical opposite, from Ecce Homo: "My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be different, not forward, not backward, not in all eternity. Not merely bear what is necessary, still less conceal…
on “Anticipatory Anxiety” ↗…never a true recluse, at least, not any more than anyone else of the time period. Given the inaccuracy of your previous statement I'd be interested in a source to support this. Below is from beginning of Ecce Homo (I selected a work at random -- it's really been a while since I've read any of his works, but I'm sure all the prefaces begin in a similar fashion -- save probably A Birth of Tragedy, since he was at…
on “When a Self-Declared Genius Asks You to Read His Masterpiece” ↗