Achilles Adam Alcibiades Apollo Thomas Aquinas Aristotle Augustine of Hippo Julius Bahnsen Charles Baudelaire Otto von Bismarck
We completely misunderstand the beast of prey and man of prey (for example, Cesare Borgia), we misunderstand ‘nature’, as long as we seek something ‘pathological’ at the core of these healthiest of all tropical monsters and growths, or even a kind of ‘hell’ innate to them -: as almost all moralists have done so far. It seems that the moralists harbour a hatred against the primeval forest and against the tropics? And that ‘tropical man’ must be discredited at all cost, whether as sickness and human degeneracy or as his own hell and self-torture? But why? In favour of the ‘moderate zones’? In favour of moderate men? Of the ‘moral’? Of the mediocre? - This for the chapter ‘Morality as Timidity’. - (p. 145)
Marriage, for example, was for a long time viewed as a crime against the rights of the community; people used to have to pay a fine for being so presumptuous as to claim one particular woman for themselves (there we include, for example, jus primae noctis, still, in Cambodia, the prerogative of priests, those custodians of ‘good old customs’). (p. 82)
Charles the Bold Cleopatra Constantine Copernicus
Faith in what? Love of what? Hope for what? - These weaklings - in fact they, too, want to be the powerful one day, this is beyond doubt, one day their ‘kingdom’ will come too - ‘the kingdom of God’ simpliciter is their name for it, as I said: they are so humble about everything! Just to experience that, you need to live long, well beyond death, - yes, you need eternal life in order to be able to gain eternal recompense in ‘the kingdom of God’ for that life on earth ‘in faith’, ‘in love’, ‘in hope’. Recompense for what? Recompense through what? … It seems to me that Dante made a gross error when, with awe-inspiring naïvety he placed the inscription over the gateway to his hell: ‘Eternal love created me as well’: - at any rate, this inscription would have a better claim to stand over the gateway to Christian Paradise and its ‘eternal bliss’: ‘Eternal hate created me as well’ - assuming that a true statement can be placed above the gateway to a lie! (p. 29)
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