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Category: Schopenhauer

  • The Beautiful Losers of History

    The Beautiful Losers of History

    If a man wants to read good books, he must make a point of avoiding bad ones; for life is short, and time and energy limited.

  • 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…

  • When the Angels Disappear

    When the Angels Disappear

    What a man is ultimately depends on his own consciousness. Therefore, attempts to alter the material conditions of life, e.g., through legal means, so-called “safe spaces”, etc., will have limited effect.

  • 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…

  • Evola on Will

    In The Individual and the Becoming of the World, Evola devotes himself to the question of the Will. While acknowledging the influence of Nietzsche on his thought, Evola nevertheless rejects Nietzsche’s naturalism and reintroduces the supernatural element. He does this by bringing back Schopenhauer’s second foundation of the world, the "Idea", which Evola calls "essence"…

  • Schopenhauer on the Will

    Schopenhauer recognized that space, time, and causality are required for any experience and understanding of the natural world, or the world of phenomena. Knowledge, then, consists in understanding the sufficient reason for things, that is, the causal relationships between them. He also recognized, following Kant, that the phenomenal world is not self-explanatory or self-sufficient: there…

  • The Art of Controversy

    The Art of Controversy

    Controversy is often of mutual advantage, in order to correct one’s thoughts and awaken new views. But in learning and in mental power both disputants must be tolerably equal.

  • Schopenhauer on Christianity

    Schopenhauer on Christianity

    The innermost kernel and spirit of Christianity is identical with that of Brahmanism and Buddhism.