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Category Archives: Philosophy
Three Saturnine Philosophers
The intellectual love of God combines the highest form of knowledge with the greatest emotion. In effect, this is God contemplating himself in the being. Our love for God, therefore, is God’s love for humanity.
Salvation therefore consists in a constant and eternal love of God. This is the most elevated and desirable state, and is the goal of the Ethics.
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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 … Continue reading
The Divided Line
A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free. Continue reading
Readymade Ideas
A great philosophy is not one that resolves the questions once and for all, but one that poses them; that a great philosophy is not one that pronounces, but one that demands. Continue reading
Transcendental Desires
Ignorance, malice, and concupiscence are not coincidentally three effects of the Fall. To the extent that these three qualities dominate consciousness, the transcendental desires fade away from awareness. Continue reading
Spiritual Man and the Tyrant
The highly intelligent are less interested in success by worldly standards and are more attracted to abstract thinking. In other words, they take the water path rather than the earth path. Continue reading
The Future of Intelligence
One often hears said, “The facts speak for themselves.” On the contrary, the mass of empirical experiences requires an orienting principle to make sense of them. This is one’s world conception, or a person’s general conscious attitude toward the world. Continue reading
The Persona and Ego
There has been no famous man who, at least some time in the course of his life, and generally earlier in proportion to his greatness, has not had a moment in which he was absolutely convinced of the possession of an ego in the highest sense. Continue reading