Apr. 21st, 2016

Babel

Apr. 21st, 2016 10:35 pm
monk111: (Noir Detective)
“All previous philosophy often seemed to me like a Tower of Babel: the object of all the great exertions is to penetrate into heaven or create heaven on earth.”

-- Friedrich Nietzsche

And I suppose that contemporary, pessimistic philosophy is about how to make do with living in hell on earth.

[Source: Ronald Hayman, “Nietzsche: A Critical Life”]
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