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The Gay Science

Friedrich Nietzsche

The Gay Science is usually placed within Nietzsche's middle period, during which his work extolled the merits of science, skepticism, and intellectual discipline as routes to mental freedom. The affirmation of the Provençal tradition (invoked through the book's title) is also one of a joyful "yea-sa...

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Philosophize This!

This book, published in 1882, was the first place where Nietzsche talked about eternal return or eternal recurrence.

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If the world had a goal, it must have been reached. If there were for it some unintended final state, this also must have been reached. If it were capable of pausing and becoming fixed, of being, in o...

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Episode: Episode #129 ... Gilles Deleuze pt. 5 - Difference

This book, published in 1882, was the first place where Nietzsche talked about eternal return or eternal recurrence.

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If the world had a goal, it must have been reached. If there were for it some unintended final state, this also must have been reached. If it were capable of pausing and becoming fixed, of being, in other words, if in the whole course of its becoming it possessed even for a moment this capability of being, then all becoming would long since have come to an end.

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