On the First Line of Nietzsche’s “On the Pathos of Truth”
Nietzsche begins “On the Pathos of Truth” with a sentence that merits an essay: “Is fame actually nothing but the tastiest morsel of our self-love?” When I firs...
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Giuseppe Ungaretti, “I am a creature”
At the battle, where one maneuvers around life and death, the mountain comes into view over and over. The mountain, “this stone,” breaks the sky, bu...
Friedrich Nietzsche, “The Case of Wagner,” 1st Chapter
for Ricky McAlister It is raining stupidly in Dallas. Flooded roads have not prevented traffic. Out of the wet and sticky weather people roam into stores, gas s...
On a Passage from Nietzsche’s “Twilight of the Idols”
“The harsh Helot condition to which the tremendous extent of science has condemned every single person today is one of the main reasons why education and ...
“Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.”
Shouldn’t logos give us insight? After all, even with “ye shall know them by their fruits,” we can say speech is a deed of sorts. And why R...