Sunday in the park with Nietzsche

 

 

 

You gotta love a guy who sits around thinking up provocatively pithy (or pithily provocative) things to say at dinner parties. And I admire Nietzsche’s stated goal “to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.”

 

Here are a few of the clever boy’s aphorisms (take from Raptitude’s list of 40 of ’em):

     He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted.

     Morality is but the herd-instinct in the individual.

     Without music, life would be a mistake.

     Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.

     The mother of excess is not joy but joylessness.

     A politician divides mankind into two classes: tools and enemies.

Kinda makes you think!