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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: Solon who wrote (16459)6/12/2001 5:52:31 AM
From: average joe  Respond to of 82486
 
perhaps he was just raving from advanced syphilis.
"You make the most asinine statements. You must be trying to corner the world market in cabbage. When you throw down your thoughtless remarks, I am simply reminded that..."

"In 1889 Nietzsche collapsed on a street in Turin, unable to bear the sight of a horse being flogged, and for the remaining years of his life was clinically insane."
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"Neitzsche had some natural talent for sarcasm: he could sneer, though he could not laugh...

The softening of the brain which ultimately overtook him was not a physical accident. If Nietzsche had not ended in imbecility, Nietzscheism would end in imbecility. Thinking in isolation and with pride ends in being an idiot.

Joan of Arc was not stuck at the crossroads, either by rejecting all the paths like Tolstoy, or by accepting them all like Nietzsche. She chose a path and went down it like a thunderbolt... We know that she was not afraid of an army, while Nietzsche, for all we know was afraid of a cow. Tolstoy only praised the peasant; she was the peasant. Nietzsche only praised the warrior; she was the warrior. She beat them both at their own antagonistic ideals; she was more gentle than the one, more violent than the other. Yet she was a perfectly practical person who did something, while they are wild speculators who do nothing..."
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