Category: Nietzsche
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Amor Fati and the Heroic Life
My formula for the greatness of man is amor fati — to change nothing, neither before nor after, throughout all eternity. Not only to bear Necessity, and still less to hide it — all idealism is a lie in the face of Necessity — but to love it. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche A happy life is…
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Prejudices of Philosophers
Philosophers, and everyone else for that matter, believe that they are following an impulse to knowledge. Nietzsche challenges that with the assertion that unconscious impulses—perhaps genii, demons, or kobolds—are the real sources of their “philosophy”. But long before Nietzsche, or Jung, or even Peterson, that was the teaching of the esoteric schools.
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Nietzsche and Being
The problem of the forgetting of Being cannot be resolved philosophically or scientifically, but only spiritually and metaphysically. We started Gornahoor first of all as an exploration in the recovery of Tradition in the West. Since Tradition is the opposite of modernity, this led to an attempt to forge a new relationship to the modern…
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Evola and Nietzsche – 40 years later
Transcending oneself: this is the great imperative of the human condition; and there is another that anticipates it and at the same time prolongs it: dominating oneself. The noble man is the one who dominates himself; the holy man is the one who transcends himself. ~ Frithjof Schuon In writing about the significance of Friedrich…
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Nietzsche for Today
to see whether one finds in oneself that natural disgust for vulgarity and for every base interest, that will for a voluntary, clear discipline, that ability to freely establish “values” and to achieve them without giving up whatever the cost, those values that define the Overcomer, the man not broken among so many things that…
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A Way Out, Further In
One of Evola’s most prescient suggestions is that the modern aspirant towards transcendence should “ride the tiger” – the individual (or the person, but not the personality) should use the negative energies of the modern world to advance himself, until they are exhausted, for opposing them directly would invite destruction. There is an important qualification:…
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Hermit Crabs and Nietzsche
Perspectivism and the Human Race Part I of a series. Hermit crabs don’t have a shell of their own. Since that makes them vulnerable to predators, they have to scramble to find empty shells left behind by gastropods. As they grow and no longer fit completely within their current shell, they once again are forced…
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Nietzsche and life-affirming religion
Nietzsche has done as much as anyone in undermining the Traditional spiritual roots of Western man in his division of religion into life-denying as exemplified in Christianity and life-affirming as exemplified in Paganism. The destruction of Christianity has not led to a life-affirming paganism, but rather to a paganism that limits itself to the satisfaction…
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Life’s a Bitch, but she’s my bitch so I love her
Death is certain, the time and manner is not. ~ Buddha In Twilight of the Idols, Nietzsche wrote: The invalid is a parasite on society. In a certain state it is indecent to go on living….The highest interest of life, of ascending life, demands the most ruthless suppression and sequestration of degenerating life — for…