Nietzsche on Language

Raphael ’s Nietzsche & Spinoza, Fresco. AI art “I am utterly amazed, utterly enchanted! I have a precursor, and what a precursor! I hardly knew Spinoza: that I should have turned to him just now, was inspired by ‘instinct.’ Not only is his overall tendency like mine—to make knowledge the most powerful affect—but in five main points of doctrine I recognize myself; this most unusual and loneliest thinker is closest to me precisely in these matters: he denies the freedom of the will, teleology, the moral world order, the unegoistic, and evil. Even though the divergences are admittedly tremendous, they are due more to the difference in time, culture, and science. In summa: my lonesomeness, which, as on very high mountains, often made it hard for me to breathe and made my blood rush out, is now at least a twosomeness.” ¹ Introduction When Nietzsche discovered his kinship with Spinoza, it was not merely a passing remark or a casual nod to influence. His exclamation signals the reco...

Dalí's Wheel of Time. AI art   I'm just sitting here Watching the wheels go round and round I really love to watch them roll Watching the Wheels. John Lennon Introduction: The Paradox of Wanting to Live Forever In Jorge Luis Borges’ short story “The Immortal,” a man discovers eternal life only to be crushed by its meaninglessness. Today, tech visionaries dream of uploading consciousness to the cloud, imagining eternal youth without suffering. But Nietzsche poses a question that unsettles both ancient myth and modern ambition: Do you really love life, or merely fear death? We dread our own annihilation. Yet, when faced with the thought of living this exact life again and again for eternity—every moment, every mistake, every joy and sorrow—most of us recoil. Why? Because we don’t truly embrace life as it is . We prefer it with conditions : sanitized of pain, free from failure, immune to decay. For Nietzsche, this conditional embrace is not affirmation—it is rese...