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Strictly speaking, there is no such thing as a science without assumptions; the very notion of such a science is unthinkable, absurd. A philosophy, a "faith" is always needed to give science a direction, a meaning, a limit, a raison d'etre.
Friedrich Nietzsche, The Genealogy of Morals
I wish to refer the reader here to the famous story of King Vishvamitra, who, after millennia of self-torture, acquired such a sense of power and confidence in himself that he undertook to build a new heaven. Here we have a majestic parable of the most ancient as well as the most modern philosopher's development. Whoever, at any time, has undertaken to build a new heaven has found the strength for it in his own hell.
Friedrich Nietzsche, The Genealogy of Morals
It is clear: these philosophers are by no means unprejudiced witnesses and judges of the value of the ascetic ideal. They think only of themselves; what are saints to them?
Friedrich Nietzsche, The Genealogy of Morals
Like every good thing on earth, justice ends by suspending itself.
Friedrich Nietzsche, The Genealogy of Morals
What makes people rebel against suffering is not really suffering itself but the senselessness of suffering... In order to negate and dispose of the possibility of any secret, unwitnessed suffering, early man had to invent gods and a whole apparatus of intermediate spirits, invisible beings who could also see in the dark, and who could not readily let pass any interesting spectacle of suffering. Such were the inventions with which life, in those days, performed its perennial trick of justifying itself.
Friedrich Nietzsche, The Genealogy of Morals
What an enormous price man had to pay for reason, seriousness, control over his emotions - those grand human prerogatives and cultural showpieces! How much blood and horror lies behind all "good things"!
Friedrich Nietzsche, The Genealogy of Morals
Together with the fear of man we have also lost the love of man, reverence for man, confidence in man, indeed the will to man.
Friedrich Nietzsche, The Genealogy of Morals
God knows it is possible to endure all kinds of misery - vile weather, sickness, trouble, isolation. All this can be coped with... There will always be moments of re-emergence into the light, when one tastes the golden hour of victory and once again stands foursquare, unshakeable, ready to face even harder things, like a bowstring taut against new perils. But, you divine patronneses - if there are any such in the realm beyond good and evil - grant me now and again the sight of something perfect, wholly achieved, happy, magnificently triumphant, something still capable of inspiring fear! Of a man who will justify the existence of mankind, for whose sake one may continue to believe in mankind!
Friedrich Nietzsche, The Genealogy of Morals
Lightheartedness, or to use my own phrase, a "gay science" is the reward of a long, courageous, painstaking, inward seriousness, which to be sure is not within every man's compass.
Friedrich Nietzsche, The Genealogy of Morals
What if the "good" man represents not merely a retrogression but even a danger, a temptation, a narcotic drug enabling the present to live at the expense of the future? More comfortable, less hazardous, perhaps, but also baser, more petty - so that morality itself would be responsible for man, as a species, failing to reach the peak of magnificence of which he is capable? What if morality should turn out to be the danger of dangers?
Friedrich Nietzsche, The Genealogy of Morals
We have no right to isolated thoughts, whether truthful or erroneous. Our thoughts should grow out of our values with the same necessity as the fruit out of the tree. Our yeas and nays, our ifs and buts should all be intimately related and bear testimony to one will, one health, one soil, one sun. Supposing you find these truths unpalatable? What concern is that of the trees - or of us, the philosophers?
Friedrich Nietzsche, The Genealogy of Morals
We knowers are unknown to ourselves, and for a good reason: how can we ever hope to find that which we have never looked for? There is a sound adage which runs: 'Where a man's treasure lies, there lies his heart.' Our treasure lies in the beehives of our knowledge. We are perpetually on our way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind. The only thing that lies close to our heart is the desire to bring something home to the hive. As for the rest our our life - so-called "experience" - who among us is serious enough for that? Or has time enough? When it comes to such matters, our heart is simply not in it - we don't even lend our ear. Rather, as a man divinely abstracted and self absorbed into whose ears the bell has just drummed the twelve strokes of noon will suddenly awake with a start and ask himself what hour has actually struck, we sometimes rub our ears after the event and ask ourselves, astonished and at a loss, "What have we really experienced?' - or rather, "Who are we, really?" And we recount the twelve tremulous strokes of our experience, our life, our being, but unfortunately count wrong. The sad truth is that we remain necessarily strangers to ourselves, we don't understand our own substance, we must mistake ourselves: the axiom, "Each man is farthest from himself," will hold for us to all eternity. Of ourselves we are not 'knowers'...
Friedrich Nietzsche, The Genealogy of Morals
Whatever may happen in the future, however water may behave in the future, - we know that up to now it has behaved thus in innumerable instances. This fact is fused into the foundations of our language-game.
Ludwig Wittgenstein, On Certainty
So when Moore sat in front of a tree and said "I know that that's a tree", he was simply stating the truth about his state at the time.
Ludwig Wittgenstein, On Certainty
Isn't the question this: "What if you had to change your opinion even on these most fundamental things?" And to that the answer seems to me to be: "You don't have to change it. That is what their being 'fundamental' is."
Ludwig Wittgenstein, On Certainty
It has no meaning to say that a game has always been played wrong.
Ludwig Wittgenstein, On Certainty
Wittgenstein on skepticism.
I know that for the last month I have had a bath every day." What am I remembering? Each day and the bath each morning? No. I know that I bathed each day and I do not derive that from some other immediate datum.
Ludwig Wittgenstein, On Certainty