Nietzsche : Friedrich (1844-1900), German classical scholar, philosopher, & critic.
... This logical conundrum turned out to have most disreputable consequences. It was handed down to Nietzsche from Schopenhauer, and from Nietzsche to Alfred Rosenberg, to Ernst Jünger in the twenties, Gottfried Benn in the early thirties, and a host of other influential German authors.” 688 Nietzsche had a profound disdain for the masses, one of the new social phenomena of the times. It seems that... the ape to men? A laughing-stock or a painful embarrassment. And just so shall man be to the superman.” 690 No doubt, Nietzsche knew Darwin; Walter Kaufmann even mentions that the young Nietzsche “was aroused from his dogmatic [Protestant] slumber by Darwin”. Yet, although Nietzsche accepted the possibility of transcending a given natural state, he was “consistently hostile” to Darwinism because it... means – this is often misunderstood – that the image of the Christian God has lost its general acceptance in the West. It means, as Nietzsche writes in The Gay Science , “that the belief in the Christian God has ceased to be believable”. This, according to Nietzsche, who wrote that book in 1882, is “the greatest recent event”. He considered “the Christian conception of God one of the most corrupt ...
... and littleness. This is how Nietzsche thinks and feels. He finds no virtue in the old regimes and he revolts from them. He wants a speedy and radical remedy and teaches that by violence only the Kingdom of Heaven can be seized. For, to Nietzsche the world is only a clash of forces and the Superman therefore is one who is the embodiment of the greatest force. Nietzsche does not care for the good... The Nietzschean Antichrist NIETZSCHE as the apostle of force is a name now familiar to all the world. The hero, the warrior who never tamely accepts suffering and submission and defeat under any condition but fights always and fights to conquer – such is the ideal man, according to Nietzsche, – the champion of strength, of greatness, of mightiness. The dominating... the weak, the little, the pitiful that do not dare to destroy and by that very fact cannot hope to create. This is the Nietzsche we all know. But there is another aspect of his which the world has yet been slow to recognise. For, at bottom, Nietzsche is not all storm and fury. If his Superman is a Destroying Angel, he is none the less an angel. If he is endowed with a supreme sense of ...
... evaluation of Friedrich Nietzsche, we may conclude with the following words by Sri Aurobindo: ‘Nietzsche first cast it, the mystic of Will-worship, the troubled, profound, half-luminous Hellenising Slav with his strange clarities, his violent half-ideas, his rare gleaming intuitions that came marked with the stamp of an absolute truth and sovereignty of light. But Nietzsche was an apostle who never... an undistorted outline of Sri Aurobindo’s ideas, and he is often represented as an epigone of Friedrich Nietzsche. At the time he gave in the Arya a philosophical shape to his inner experiences and coined the terminology for them, he was of course aware of the possible association with Nietzsche, if only because of the word ‘superman’ and its connotations. This is why in one of the first issues of... and again he has been wrongly labelled as a philosopher and as a spiritual innovator. Sri Aurobindo held Nietzsche in high esteem. He called him ‘the most vivid, concrete and suggestive of modern thinkers,’ 49 and he regretted ‘the misapplication by Treitschke of the teachings of Nietzsche to national and international uses which would have profoundly disgusted the philosopher himself.’ 50 One ...
... 173. 686 J.P. Stern: Nietzsche, p. 92. 687 In Walter Kaufmann: Nietzsche – Philosopher, Psychologist, Antichrist, p. 245. 688 J.P. Stern, op. cit., p. 69. 689 Id., p. 108. 690 In Philip Novak, op. cit., p. 135. 691 J.P. Stern, op. cit., pp. 71, 77. 692 Carl Pletsch: Young Nietzsche – Becoming a Genius, p. 197. 693 Lesley Chamberlain: Nietzsche in Turin – An Intimate Biography... 659 Ulrich Linse: Geisterseher und Wunderwirker, p. 119. 660 Helmut Neuberger: Winkelmass und Hakenkreuz, p. 51. 661 Sebastian Haffner: Defying Hitler, p. 53. 662 Jochen Kirchhoff: Nietzsche, Hitler und die Deutschen, p. 49. 663 In Moritz Bassler and Hildegard Châtellier (ed.): Mystique, mysticisme et modernité en Allemagne autour de 1900, p. 95. 664 Id., p. 96. 665 Ulrich... 57, 66. 707 Hildegard Châtellier: Entre religion et philosophie: approaches du spiritisme chez Hanns von Gumppenberg, in: Mystique, mysticisme, etc., pp. 115 ff. 708 Steven Aschheim: Nietzsche und die Deutschen – Karriere eines Kults, p. 72. 709 Otto Friedrich: Before the Deluge, p. 226. 710 Hugo von Hofmannsthal, in Stefan Breur, op. cit., p. 25. 711 Ibid. 712 Michael Baigent ...
... A History of the Jews Junge, Traudl: Bis zur letzten Stunde Kaufmann, Walter: Nietzsche – Philosopher, Psychologist, Antichrist Kempowski, Walter: Haben Sie Hitler gesehen? Kershaw, Ian: Hitler – 1889-1936 Hubris Kershaw, Ian: Hitler 1936-1945: Nemesis Kirchhoff, Jochen: Nietzsche, Hitler und die Deutschen Klemperer, Viktor: Tagebücher 1937-1939 Knopp, Guido:... zum Einfluss des Spiritismus auf Kandinsky”, in Mystique, mysticisme, etc. Alleau, René: Hitler et les sociétés secrètes Allen, Martin: The Hitler/Hess Deception Aschheim, Steven: Nietzsche und die Deutschen – Karriere eines Kults Sri Aurobindo: Collected Poems Sri Aurobindo: Letters on Yoga Sri Aurobindo: On Himself Sri Aurobindo: On the Mother Sri Aurobindo:... Simon: Stafford Cripps – A Political Life Burleigh, Michael: The Third Reich – A New History Cannadine, David (ed.): The Speeches of Winston Churchill, p 134. Chamberlain, Lesley: Nietzsche in Turin – An Intimate Biography Châtellier, Hildegard: Entre religion et philosophie: approaches du spiritisme chez Hanns von Gumppenberg, in: Mystique, mysticisme, etc. Churchill, Winston: ...
... the supreme organon of knowledge, the highest deity in man— la Deesse Raison. And it is precisely against these two basic principles that the new, age has entered its protest. In face of Humanism, Nietzsche has posited the Superman and in face of Reason; Bergson has posited Intuition. The worship of man as something essentially and exclusively human necessitates as a corollary, the other doctrine... doctrine, viz. the deification of Reason; and vice versa. Humanism and Scientism go together and the whole spirit and mentality of the age that is passing may be summed up in those two words. So Nietzsche says, "All our modern world is captured in the net of the Alexandrine culture and has, for its ideal, the theoretical man, armed with the most powerful instruments of knowledge, toiling in the service... interpretation, the application, does not seem to have been always happy. For, Nietzsche's conception of the Superman is full of obvious lacunae. If we have so long been adoring the intellectual man, Nietzsche asks us, on the other hand, to deify the vital man. According to him the superman is he who has (1) the supreme sense of the ego, (2) the sovereign will to power and (3) who lives dangerously. ...
... organon of knowledge, the highest deity in man - la Déesse Raison. And it is precisely against these two basic principles that the new age has entered its protest. In face of Humanism, Nietzsche has posited the Superman and in face of Reason Bergson has posited Intuition. The worship of man as something essentially and exclusively human necessitates as a corollary, the other... doctrine, viz. the deification of Reason; and vice versa. Humanism and Scientism go together and the whole spirit and mentality of the age that is passing may be summed up in those two words. So Nietzsche says, "All our modern world is captured in the net of the Alexandrine culture and has, for its ideal, the theoretical man, armed with the most powerful instruments of knowledge, toiling in the service... interpretation, the application, does not seem to have been always happy. For, Nietzsche's conception of the' Superman is full of obvious lacunae. If we have so long been adoring the intellectual man, Nietzsche asks us, on the other hand, to deify the vital man. According to him the superman is he who has (I) the supreme sense of the ego, (2) the sovereign will to power and (3) who lives dangerously. ...
... innumerable company of the Heavenly Host crying Holy, Holy, Holy is the Lord God Almighty*. I admit my own profound suspicion of what (perhaps only superficially) resembles the Superman thought of Nietzsche, and the evolutionism of Darwin is also antipathetic to me. But there I admit that I am probably understanding in Western terms what Sri Aurobindo in- Page 74 tended in a very different... enlightenment that passes beyond any discussion of literature or poetry. Of that I cannot possibly judge and in my guarded Page 83 attitude towards the suspicion of Western influence (Nietzsche and Darwin) in some aspect of his thought I think I have certainly misunderstood him. I am not a philosopher, or a mystic, or even a poet in the sense of Yeats or Shelley or any of the poets I love... back to earth to give our familiar cosmos and our historical process a novel significance. This significance is not, as you may fancy, a sort of transmogrified evolutionism caught from Darwin or Nietzsche; it has its birth beyond their ken, they were only vague prefiguring signs of a forward-looking epoch prepared by a secret Time-Spirit which was to manifest the Avatar of the Supermind whose heart-beats ...
... that the idea has obvious fallacies, but isn't it broadly true? Not in the least. But what is the use of telling me what Nietzsche meant by living dangerously, and how am I to know that you mean the same? Certainly not the commercial test. I was quoting Nietzsche—so the mention of him is perfectly apposite. Kindly let us know by your example what you mean by living dangerously. I... me. I note also that the only danger man can run in this world is that of the lack of money. Karl Marx himself could not have made a more economic world of it! But I wonder whether that was what Nietzsche meant by living dangerously? 15 January 1935 I was grieved to see that you rubbed off what you wrote. We want to know so much of your life, of which we know so little! Why the devil should ...
... which we are not yet, but have to become, is not the strong vital Will hymned by Nietzsche, but a spiritual self and spiritual nature. For as soon as we speak of supermanhood we must be careful to avoid all confusion with the strong but so superficial and incomplete conception of Nietzsche's superman. Indeed, since Nietzsche invented the word superman, when someone uses it to speak of the coming race... "to become ourselves", implying, as it does, that man has not yet found all his true self, his true nature by which he can successfully and spontaneously live, could not be bettered; nevertheless, Nietzsche made the mistake we said we ought to avoid: his superman is but a man aggrandised, magnified, in whom Force has become super-dominant, crushing under its weight all the other attributes of man. Such ...
... can be cast by thought into the soil of our human growth. Nietzsche first cast it, the mystic of Will-worship, the troubled, profound, half-luminous Hellenising Slav with his strange clarities, his violent half-ideas, his rare gleaming intuitions that came marked with the stamp of an absolute truth and sovereignty of light. But Nietzsche was an apostle who never entirely understood his own message... of divinity the idea in us should owe allegiance. For the deity within may confront us either with the clear, joyous and radiant countenance of the God or the stern convulsed visage of the Titan. Nietzsche hymned the Olympian but presented him with the aspect of the Asura. His hostile preoccupation with the Christ-idea of the crucified God and its consequences was perhaps responsible for this distortion ...
... moral sensibility is incompatible with neurosis. Yet to put Buddha in the same category as a man like Nietzsche is to shoot wide of the mark. The author did not actually lump Buddha and Nietzsche together, but his contrasting descriptions of Buddha cannot help evoking in my mind the picture of Nietzsche. Here was a dynamic intellect, both logical and poetic, acute and inspired, an enemy of the sham ...
... nobility and aristocracy of the spirit, not unlike that extolled a few years earlier by Nietzsche and a few years later by D.H. Lawrence … It was for this nobility, for the sources of their inspiration and for what they were expected to achieve, that the words ‘Secret Germany’ were first employed … George, unlike Nietzsche, did not choose to be alone; it was the heart of his method to build a secret empire... Ultimately, George was hostile to the new regime … George’s sometimes equivocal disapproval did not deter the Nazis from hailing him as a spiritual precursor and trying to co-opt him, much as they did Nietzsche.” 721 Resurgence and greatness of a new German Reich, leading to a new world and a new man; the fulfilment of the Führer expectation; the redress of alleged injustices by the morally and culturally ...
... myself with nothing to live on. I could not have done that, if money had been an incentive. But what is the use of telling me what Nietzsche meant by it? How am I to know that you mean the same as he? Certainly not the commercial test. I was quoting Nietzsche—so the mention of him is perfectly apposite. Kindly let us know by your examples, what you mean by living dangerously that we poor... me. I note also that the only danger man can run in this world is that of the lack of money. Karl Marx himself could not have made a more economic world of it! But I wonder whether that was what Nietzsche meant by living dangerously? January 15, 1935 I am rather grieved to know that you rubbed off what you wrote, and that my attempts to draw you out have failed very narrowly! But what ...
... by Hitler himself by dropping their names in his writings and speeches. Yet it is hardly believable that a twenty year old, unsystematic autodidact could grasp the intricacies of philosophers like Nietzsche, Marx and Schopenhauer. Hitler would no doubt be able to quote striking sayings and passages from philosophers which accorded with his prejudices, but this is not exactly the same as insight into... thinking. “It must be understood that young Hitler in no way drew from primary sources, which means that mostly he did not have his knowledge from let us say Darwin, Chamberlain, Dühring, Le Bon, Nietzsche, Schopenhauer or Schiller. He drew his knowledge in the first place from articles about all this in newspapers, brochures and popular writings.” (Brigitte Hamann 126) “In actual fact, knowledge meant... “Earlier Hitler biographers tended to confine their surveys of Hitler’s supposed sources of inspiration to intellectually respectable writers on racial superiority and anti-Semitism such as Gobineau, Nietzsche, Wagner and Chamberlain. But there is no evidence that Hitler read their scholarly works. It is altogether more likely that he would have picked up ideas to rationalize his own dualist outlook and ...
... Nietzsche's use of the terms. After Nietzsche they are always opposed roughly as Romanticism and Classicism, instinct and reason, natural state and civilisation, myth and rationalism, music and the plastic arts, the dithyrambic and the reflective as exemplified in the chorus and the dialogue respectively of a Greek tragedy. 1 Recently the antithesis à la Nietzsche has come into special literary prominence... Therefore Cassandra cries in vain to her sire and her brothers. All I endure I foresee and the strength in me waits for its coming; 1 Will Durant, The Story of Philosophy "Friedrich Nietzsche" (Pocket Books Inc., New York), PP.407. 2 Ibid. 3 Ilion, p. 116 Page 320 All I foresee I approve; for I know what is willed, O Cronion. Yet is the fierce strength ...
... that One therefore not so much as stable substance or essence as active Force, a sort of substantial Will-to-become, is the foundation of Heraclitus' philosophy. Nietzsche, whom Mr. Ranade rightly affiliates to Heraclitus, Nietzsche, the most vivid, concrete and suggestive of modern thinkers, as is Heraclitus among the early Greeks, founded his whole philosophical thought on this conception of existence ...
... essential nature of man has inspired many revolutionary conceptions of ethics and society and individual self-development down to the latest of the kind, the strangely inspired vitalistic philosophy of Nietzsche. The common defect of these conceptions is to miss the true character of man and the true law of his being, his Dharma. Nietzsche's idea that to develop the superman out of our Page 232 ... said, in an awakening to our real, because our highest self and nature,—that hidden self which we are not yet, but have to become and which is not the strong and enlightened vital Will hymned by Nietzsche, but a spiritual self and spiritual nature that will use the mental being which we already are, but the mental being spiritualised, and transform by a spiritual ideality the aim and action of our ...
... been so much disfigured in its objective action, was not in Germany's statesmen and soldiers—for the most part poor enough types of men—but came from her great philosophers, Kant, Hegel, Fichte, Nietzsche, from her great thinker and poet Goethe, from her great musicians, Beethoven and Wagner, and from all in the German soul and temperament which they represented. A nation whose master achievement has... for there was no pure transmission from the subjective mind of the thinkers and singers to the objective mind of the scholars and organisers. The misapplication by Treitschke of the teaching of Nietzsche to national and international uses which would have profoundly disgusted the philosopher himself, is an example of this obscure transmission. But still a transmission there was. For more than a h ...
... clouds and seeks after pure metaphysical truth too exclusively for its own sake; therefore it has been a little barren because much too indirect in its bearing on life. It is the great distinction of Nietzsche among later European thinkers to have brought back something of the old dynamism and practical force into philosophy, although in the stress of this tendency he may have neglected unduly the dialectical... with so triumphant a confidence? or does it even give ground for any aspiration to some kind of a divine supermanhood such as his disciples the Stoics so sternly laboured for or as that of which Nietzsche, the modern Heraclitus, drew a too crude and violent figure? His saying that man is kindled and extinguished as light disappears into night, is commonplace and discouraging enough. But this may after ...
... related to identical views in other religions, and even had space for the theories and discoveries of science. “Theosophy swept Europe with an impetus and energy comparable to that of Wagner or Nietzsche. Wagner may have created a religion of his own, but few people at the time would explicitly have acknowledged it to be such. Theosophy, on the other hand, did announce itself as a full-fledged organized... science had reached its limits and only a few gaps remained to be filled up, physics broke through the barriers of tridimensionality into the realms of relativity and quantum mechanics. Friedrich Nietzsche wrote almost simultaneously his works about the “will to power” and the “superman”, aiming at a “transvaluation of all values”. His work and that of his admirer Henri Bergson, who thought out the ...
... militant anarchism. Marx was only one of the thinkers directly influencing the age; the other principal ones were Charles Darwin, Friedrich Nietzsche and Sigmund Freud. Darwin gave a severe blow to the image man had of himself as the king of creation. Nietzsche, “the eloquent and menacing prophet of an impending catastrophe”, proclaimed the end of the Western civilisation based on Christianity; Freud ...
... established, some- thing of this true sense of it was caught up in a poetically inspired though not profound or even quite coherent manner by Nietzsche with his cry that man is to be surpassed and that he is only a bridge between the ape and the superman. Nietzsche was under the spell of the materialistic evolution- theory of his day, with its cult of struggle for existence and survival of the fittest: ...
... makes his thought substance of poetry, he ceases to be a philosophic thinker and becomes a poet-seer of Truth. Thus the more rigid metaphysicians are perhaps right in denying to Nietzsche the name of philosopher; for Nietzsche does not think, but always sees, turbidly or clearly, rightly or distortedly, but with the eye of the seer rather than with the brain of the thinker. On the other hand we may get ...
... only exists as resultant of the many even as the many only exist as a becoming of the One? Mr. Ranade seems to think so; he tells us that this philosophy denies Being and affirms only Becoming,—like Nietzsche, like the Buddhists. But surely this is to read a little too much into Heraclitus' theory of perpetual change, to take it too much by itself. If that was his whole belief, it is difficult to see why... 229 to posit their universal principle of Karma which, when you think of it, comes after all to a universal energy as the cause of the world, a creator and preserver of unchanging measures. Nietzsche denied Being, but had to speak of a universal Will-to-be; which again, when you come to think of it, seems to be no more than a translation of the Upanishadic tapo brahma , "Will-Energy is Brahman ...
... as in Europe to ignore or combat religion, has always been itself deeply religious. In Europe Buddha and Shankara would have become the heads of metaphysical schools & ranked with Kant or Hegel or Nietzsche 1 as strong intellectual influences; in India they became, inevitably, the founders of great religious sects, immense moral & spiritual forces;—inevitably because Europe has made thought its highest... origins & later history of similar forms in different environments. In India [ incomplete ] Page 195 × Nietzsche stands perhaps on a different plane because he had something of the concrete visualisation & passion for his ideas & experiences which mark off the religious from the merely philosophical mind. ...
... the present age, as it develops further, will approach such philosophy more and more gratefully. Parallel to the line towards super-psychology is the drive initiated in the last century by Nietzsche with the formula: "Man is something to be surpassed. Lo, I teach you the Superman!" Nietzsche's idea of the Superman was much coloured by the science of his day and it was at best a titanic heroism... almost true in the Herrenvolk of Hitler and are facing another version of it in the aggressive challenge of Stalinist totalitarianism, the idea of the Superman cast deep into the modern mind by Nietzsche is showing signs of becoming subtler and purer and less egoistic, more inclined to values like "sublimation" and "integration of personality". In short, it is getting orientated, however slowly and ...
... he be recognised as the creation of our own conscience? The answer to this question is very momentous, and affects profoundly our whole morality. The worship of Force, to which Carlyle 3 and Nietzsche 4 and the creed of Militarism have accustomed us, is the result of failure to maintain our own ideals against a hostile universe: it is itself a prostrate submission to evil, a sacrifice of our best... of the Bible's Old Testament), who, despite great suffering and adversity, kept his faith in God. 3. Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881): Scottish essayist and historian. 4. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900): German philosopher. One of the principles propounded in his philosophy is that the strong must rule over the weak. 5. Prometheus is a Titan of Greek mythology who stole fire from ...
... Ignorance. And, finally, although Nietzsche and Sri Aurobindo both emphasised the fact that "if the world is really to be raised to a higher level, Page 441 it can only be done through a new and higher race of men and not through individual salvation of individual men", their respective images of the coming Superman were very different: What Nietzsche means by a Superman is a Titan ...
... philosophy was at first a very Page 628 great but too dryly intellectual statement of truths that get their living meaning only in the intuitive experience, but afterwards in Schopenhauer and Nietzsche as in Wagner it developed the intuitive vision and led to a deep change in European thinking. But the life of Germany remained still unaffected by her higher mind, well-organised, systematic but vitally ...
... any utility in this direction, nothing of the first importance in fact which India has not already stated in forms better suited to her own spiritual temper and genius, and though the thought of Nietzsche, of Bergson and of James has recently touched more vitally just a few minds here and there, their drift is much too externally pragmatic and vitalistic to be genuinely assimilable by the Indian spirit ...
... within oneself and not the one Divine, or if one sought God for oneself alone, then indeed the result might be a grandiose egoism, the Olympian egoism of a Goethe or the Titanic egoism imagined by Nietzsche, or it might be the isolated self-knowledge or asceticism of the ivory tower or the Stylites pillar. But he who sees God in all, will serve freely God in all with the service of love. He will, that ...
... 140) If thou keepest this limited human ego & thinkest thyself the superman, thou art but the fool of thy own pride, the plaything of thy own force and the instrument of thy own illusions. 141) Nietzsche saw the superman as the lion-soul passing out of camel-hood, but the true heraldic device & token of the superman is the lion seated upon the camel which stands upon the cow of plenty. If thou canst ...
... dissatisfaction and disgust with materialism and mechanism animate Shaw and some touch he does bring of the prophetic Soul Of the wide world dreaming on things to come. The cry which Nietzsche raised of "surpassing man" and going beyond to a greater formula of embodied consciousness is ever on Shaw's lips, although he is not a strict partisan of Nietzsche's apotheosis of strength and aggression ...
... then he was a fortiori National Socialism. Therefore Fest can quote prominent Nazis as stating not only that “Hitler was the most radical Nazi of all”, but even that he was “the only Nazi” – just as Nietzsche said that Christ had been the only Christian. It was this way of seeing which allowed Konrad Heiden to entitle a chapter of his early Hitler biography “Hitler versus National Socialism”, in which ...
... unfinished epic Ilion. He had the highest appreciation of the Buddha, “in his action the most powerful personality that we know of as having lived and produced results upon earth” 965, and referred to Nietzsche throughout his oeuvre. It is a sign of his erudition (and excellent memory) that he used an idea of Karl Lamprecht as the starting point of The Human Cycle. Lamprecht (1856-1915) was a famous ...
... , Arthur Rimbaud, Stéphane Mallarmé and Paul Valéry. And there were of course the Impressionists, scandalizing but revolutionizing the world of the arts, not to forget the philosophers Friedrich Nietzsche, loosing his mind in the whirlpool of the age, Henri Bergson, and Sigmund Freud. This cascade of names reminds us that the age of Jules Verne (1828-1905), contemporary of Alfred Wallace, was much ...
... and extermination of thousands and even millions of human beings. This, of course, was something Darwin could not so much as have imagined, and for which he was as little responsible as Friedrich Nietzsche was for Nazism. It is also important to correct the common opinion that all this started with him. In previous chapters we have seen that evolution was in the air, and that Darwinism became the flag ...
... in mind. Notable Westerners have believed in reincarnation: Pythagoras, Plato, Leonardo da Vinci, Leibniz, Benjamin Franklin, Goethe, Shelley, Victor Hugo, Balzac, Richard Wagner, Walt Whitman, Nietzsche, Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, Gauguin, Strindberg, Mondriaan, Jung, H. G. Wells. It was the great composer and director Gustave Mahler who wrote: ‘We all return; it is this certainty that gives meaning ...
... toward mysticism and occultism. They wanted to gain access to higher states of consciousness by penetrating into the hidden, dark parts of the human personality, following as their guides Friedrich Nietzsche, Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung and Johann Bachofen. Those who mastered such perilous paths would become a new kind of supermen. The efforts of the Cosmics, writes Large, showed “a fascinating mixture of ...
... inertia as of living stone. If the heart were not forced to want and weep, His soul would have lain down content, at ease, And never thought to exceed the human start. Nietzsche caught something of the Divine Resolve, amounting to a predetermination, when he said: 'DerMensch ist Etwas das ueberwunden werden soll. '* But as Sri Aurobindo points out, this ultimate self- ...
... that I had a congenital streak of the mystic which Dickinson dubs incomprehensible and Punditji medieval. So I was not only willing but eager to play for higher stakes — " to live dangerously" as Nietzsche has put it. But as the days passed, I could neither perceive the call nor find a way to give a practical shape to my ideal. I was all but ready to "take the plunge" but where was the calling, haunting ...
... engineering. Houston Chamberlain was an admirer of Gobineau although, contrary to the Frenchman’s pessimism, he proposed a gloriously positive outlook. Like many of his contemporaries, including Nietzsche, Chamberlain had a problem with the descent of the human from the primates, which did not prevent him to accept Social Darwinism, “so typical of much radical thought”. Radicals do tend to deem themselves ...
... quip that Germany was “going boldly into the future in search of an imaginary past”. 470 Volker Mauersberger, narrating the surrender to the Nazis of Weimar – as the town of Goethe, Schiller and Nietzsche a symbol of German culture – quotes a historian who said that the völkisch movement, culminating in Nazism, was “the reconstruction of a past which was resplendently gilded in the collective memory ...
... Infinite who emanates or looses-forth the world out of His own being in whatever form He chooses. Of course Eckhart is not the sole thinker possible for comparison, Leibnitz, Hegel, Goethe, Nietzsche, Steiner are others who in various ways can provide a hold. Nor is Page 89 Heidegger so far astray as you believe from the Aurobindonian line. His Being and Time, an early work ...
... case it is such as the literary sense of any country, coupled with the high status of the speaker, would independently invent. Nobody has Suggested that if Darius had not set up his inscriptions Nietzsche could never have entitled his masterpiece Also Sprach Zarathustra (Thus Spake Zarathustra) or far earlier the Buddhist anthology's name ltivutaka (Thus Spake the Buddha) would never have seen ...
... me get back to my horses. They are not only the symbolic medium in which the soul has to fulfil its aim: "the Life Divine." To reach this fulfilment one has to note first how very human - or, as Nietzsche has said, "all-too-human" - life is. It has to be changed. The need to change it and the way to do so are the work the Avatar comes to show us. The Divine becomes human so that we may learn to make ...
... Western 'technology', and Christian 'personalism'. More and more I see growing in me the evidence and the human consequences of the great thing that is happening right now. Not 'God who is dying,' as Nietzsche said, but 'God who is changing,' so that, as I am in the habit of saying, the Upward movement is now reinforced by a Forward movement never before considered by the religions" (July 25, 1950) 41 ...
... exaggeration of the forces of the human ignorance. There is also implied in it the idea of a forceful domination over humanity by the superman. This is the concept of supermanhood that we find in Nietzsche. The Nietzschean type of superman really signifies what is contained in the Indian concepts of the Rakshasa or Asura. The Rakshasa and the Asura symbolize a tense effort of humanity to surpass ...
... The supramental supermanhood would mean the manifestation of divinity at a new critical point of development of the supermind which can serve as the new instrument of the Spirit. In recent times, Nietzsche has spoken of supermanhood, but when we examine the stuff and the qualities that characterise his idea of supermanhood, one feels in it the marks of some great but undivine magnitude of Asuric or ...
... of mind, life and body. This would mean the manifestation of the supramental super manhood, a new step in evolution. The idea of the superman has been spoken of in modem times, particularly by Nietzsche, but SriAurobindo's concept of superman is quite different, and as Sri Aurobindo points out, while Nietzschean superman would manifest barbaric strength and ruthlessness and force, — rakshasic or ...
... me. I note also that the only danger man can run in this world is that of the lack of money. Karl Marx himself could not have made a more economic world of it! But I wonder whether that was what Nietzsche meant by living dangerously? 2 Page 355 (3) No 'father' on me, please! NB: Please don't mind our pungent remarks. We don't look upon you as a Bengali father but as an English ...
... given me. I note also that the only danger man can run in this world is that of lack of money. Karl Marx himself could not have made a more economic world of it! But I wonder whether that was what Nietzsche meant by living dangerously?' I submitted my apologies but persisted in my foolish inquiries in order to draw him out further. So I wrote back: 'Kindly let us know by your examples, what you mean ...
... still more practically useful, still closer to the earthly texture of humanity. The humanism, known to Europe generally, both in its profane and religious aspects, is all "human—too human" as Nietzsche pronounced it; it was for this reason that the Promethean prophet conjured man to transcend his humanity anyhow, and rise to a superior status of culture and civilisation, of being and consciousness ...
... nature, this schizophrenia, as the malady is termed nowadays, which is the source of the eternal strain of melancholy in human nature of which Matthew Arnold speaks, of the Shelleyan saddest thoughts: Nietzsche need not have gone elsewhere in his quest for the origin and birth Page 272 of Tragedy. A Socrates discontented, the Christ as the Man of Sorrows, and Amitabha, the soul of pity and ...
... of India has still something to teach us moderns, some light to give us in our present predicament. For, although, the ideal is generally admitted in many places, the way to it is not clear. Since Nietzsche spoke of the surpassing of man, many are taken up with the ideal, but the means to effect it remains yet to be discovered: it is still under discussion, at least. As a matter of fact, the goal itself ...
... then to the present day? Races and cultures have risen and have perished, but they have been pursuing one line, moving towards one direction - the growth of homo fabricus - the term coined by Nietzsche -Man the artisan. Man has become man through the discovery and use of tools - from tools of stone to tools of iron, that marks his growth from primitiveness to civilisation. And the degree of civilisation ...
... Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol. 1 Man to be Surpassed "MAN is a thing that shall be surpassed". This burning phrase of Nietzsche has unsealed many eyes: it has also scalded and frightened others. It has been hailed by many as the motto, the mantra of the age to come; it has been denounced equally as a false light, a lead of arrogance and egoism ...
... Kant and then gave it up, because it wouldn't go in: that is, it didn't become real to me. I was like Manilal grappling with The Life Divine . Plato I could read, as he was not merely metaphysical. Nietzsche also because of his powerful ideas. In Indian philosophy I read the Upanishads and the Gita, etc. They are, of course, mainly results of spiritual experience. People think I must be immensely learned ...
... Nehru, Motilal, 229, 522,531 Netter, William T., 778 Nevinson, Henry, 205,207,269 New Lamps for Old', 56ff, 184,190, 228, 281 Newsman, J. H., 490 Nietzsche, 441-42 Nirodbaran, 215, 577-78, 589, 594, 599ff, 604, 608-09, 655, 657, 693-94, 707, 743, 744 Nishikanto, 758, 730 Nivedita, Sister, 63, 221, 235, 266, 282, 287, 338-39 ...
... of mental processes and a much greater reliance on the 'overhead' or higher-than-the-mind powers of consciousness like intuition, overmind and supermind. The nineteenth-century German thinker, Nietzsche, had also speculated about the 'superman', but that was only the Asuric man, "a man aggrandised, magnified, in whom Force has become super-dominant, crushing under its weight all the other attributes ...
... Shankara, Sri Aurobindo said: That is not true. I have not read much of philosophy. It is like those who say that I am influenced by Hegel. Some even say that I am influenced by Nietzsche.. .The only two books that have influ- enced me are the Gita and the Upanishads. What I wrote was the work of intuition and inspiration working on the basis of my spiritual experience ...
... live. We will first take up only general considerations before the chapter proper. The will to live has been one of the powers noticed by some philosophers as the cause of continuation of existence. Nietzsche, I think, expressed it first—will to exist or will to live and will to power. Then men like Dr. Schweitzer translate this "will to live" into "will to love." If the "will to conquer", and "will to ...
... mistake and perhaps sought to become merely a super-ape, a better climber of trees, a better hunter, a better runner, in short an ape with greater agility and increased capacity for malice. With Nietzsche we also wanted a "superman" who was nothing more than a colossalisation of man. The spiritually minded want a super-saint more richly endowed with virtue and wisdom. But we want nothing of human ...
... a sub-nation's soul. Sri Aurobindo rightly points out that it was not her soldiers and empire-builders like Bismark and Moltke and Kaiser Wilhelm II but her thinkers like Kant, Hegel, Fichte and Nietzsche and her great musicians, Beethoven and Wagner, who represented Germany's great subjective force that has ushered in the modem renaissance. And yet it is the soldier and the racist who have repeatedly ...
... a warrior,—the camel-man he may be to begin with and the child-man hereafter, but the lion-man he must become in the middle, if he is to attain his perfection,—these now much-decried theories of Nietzsche have, however much we may differ from many of the moral and practical conclusions he drew from them, their undeniable justification and recall us to a truth we like to hide out of sight. It is good ...
... fruitful philosophical thinking, is almost certainly exaggerated & unjustified. The emergence of a new metaphysical thinking, more practical & realistic than the old abstract philosophies, presaged by Nietzsche, fulfilled in James & Bergson, is a sign at once of the return of Europe upon this dangerous error and of a perception, subconscious perhaps, of that real defect in the character of metaphysics which ...
... achieving this importance in Europe. In the days of the Stoics and Epicureans it got a grip, but only among the highly cultured; at the present day, too, we have some renewed tendency of the kind. Nietzsche has had his influence, certain French thinkers also in France, the philosophies of James and Bergson have attracted some amount of public interest; but it is a mere nothing compared with the effective ...
... matters very little to me what Mr. Archer or Dr. Gough or Sir John Woodroffe's unnamed English professor may say about Indian philosophy; it is enough for me to know what Emerson or Schopenhauer or Nietzsche, three entirely different minds of the greatest power in this field, or what thinkers like Cousin Page 100 and Schlegel have to say about it or to mark the increasing influence of some ...
... systematically organizing, under the concept of Wissenschaft , every branch of human knowledge. They were deserving and capable of mastery of the world. Rule by the best must be fulfilled. By this time Nietzsche, as Brandes wrote in 1909, held ‘undisputed sway’ over the minds of his countrymen. What they lacked and hungered for was the world’s acknowledgment of their mastery. So long as it was denied, frustration ...
... The one will sink below humanity, the other will rise above the present humanity. I might call the former ‘god-man’ and the latter ‘mass animal’ … Yes, man is something that has to be overcome. Nietzsche knew already something about this in his own way … Man becomes God, this is what it all means in simple words. Man is the becoming God …” And it was here that he spoke the oft-quoted words: “He who ...
... intellectuals and their idea of self-redemption. ‘The human being redeems itself: this is the new religion’, is written already in 1892 in a notebook of the young bookseller Diederichs, whose reading of Nietzsche had obviously not remained without consequences. One also perceives in him the suffering because of the ‘death of God’ which, all the same, was seen by his generation as an opportunity for religious ...
... of this great subjective force which has been so much disfigured in its objective action, was not in Germany’s statesman and soldiers … but came from her great philosophers, Kant, Hegel, Fichte, Nietzsche, from her great poet and thinker Goethe, from her great musicians, Beethoven and Wagner, and from all in the German soul and temperament which they represented. A nation whose master achievement has ...
... almost instantaneously around the globe. Its influence, teaching the belief in the soul and reincarnation, and drawing attention to the oriental spiritualities, cannot be overestimated. Friedrich Nietzsche, with his philosophy of the Umwertung aller Werte (revaluation of all values) and the Übermensch (literally “overman”) was the philosopher en vogue, together with Henri Bergson and his vitalism ...
... approaching its completion … One thing is certain: Hitler has the spirit of the prophet. He is not content to be a mere politician. ‘… “Yes,” Hitler continued, “man has to be passed and surpassed. Nietzsche did, it is true, realize something of this in his way. He went as far as to recognize the superman as a new biological variety. But he was not too sure of it. Man is becoming God – that is the simple ...
... shadow of the aim of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother. That ‘infrarational mystic’, as Sri Aurobindo called him, was driven by his vision of the Übermensch, a superman superior to the kind Friedrich Nietzsche had envisaged, a vision which could have been inspired into him only by the Asura (very probably via Eckart and Haushofer). In the words of Achilles Delmas: ‘Hitler’s aim is not the establishment ...
... himself as the future Man.” 42 A last reflection on the subject of superman: no sooner have most people heard the word “superman” pronounced than they associate it with the ideas of Friedrich Nietzsche (d. 1900). Sri Aurobindo knew the writings of that “half-luminous Hellenising Slav”, the “apostle who never entirely understood his own message”, 43 much better than is commonly supposed. He even ...
... work, and has refused to have anything to do with me.” 20 It is not difficult to imagine the religion the Mother here talks about: one has only to think of the superman as conceived by Friedrich Nietzsche. “I am no longer in my body. I have left it for the Lord to take care of it, to decide if it is to have the Supramental or not. I know and I have said also that now is the last fight. If the purpose ...
... itself. Mirra was born at a time when the human being turned inwards and subjected to close scrutiny all that had gone before. This happened in literature (Proust, Rimbaud, Mallarmé), philosophy (Nietzsche and Bergson), psychology (Freud and Jung), biology (Darwin, Pasteur) and physical science (the Curies, Planck, Lorentz, Einstein). The incredible twentieth century, the greatest show in all history ...
... therefore a gâchis [waste] of the life's possibilities. Is it that he has not discovered what she is like or he still clings to her in spite of it? 1931? The verse translations from Nietzsche are very successful, some of them quite admirable, and the poem on Mahakali combines the sublime and the lyrical in a perfect fusion. Suhrawardy's 1 poem is exceedingly beautiful, sentimental ...
... vitalism and intuitionalism restated the rights of the emotional components of human nature. This change was initiated in the arts, foremost by the Impressionist “light explosion”. In quick succession Nietzsche, Freud, Bergson and Proust – to name only a few of the important innovators – appeared on the cultural scene. All contended the sole rule of reason; the human being burst out of the straight-jacket ...
... Greek gods in Germany also led to utopian visions of a Hellenic Germany, based on the best, most rational and most aesthetically superior Apollonian aspects of ancient Greek culture. In the 1870’s, Nietzsche and Wagner unleashed a stream of utopian fantasies that reversed these notions with their appeal to a return of an irrational, organic, Dionysian community of oneness of will and expression.” 505 ...
... For the völkisch movement it was “unbearable that their Nordic race had borrowed the god of another race, the Semites, and held on to him. Each people has its own God, they asserted, thinking of Nietzsche who once had stated that ‘the Nordic races should be embarrassed not to have produced a single own god in two thousand years’.” 493 The authentic need of the völkisch Germans was for a personal ...
... 351 consideration, and the egoism of the nation must consent to exist only as an organic part of this larger egoism. In effect, this is the acceptance after so many decades of the idea of Nietzsche who insisted that nationalism and war were anachronisms and the ideal of all enlightened minds must be not to be good patriots but good Europeans. But immediately the question arose, what then of ...
... his weakness? So it is at least in the world, the primal law, although subject to the help of the weak by the strong which need not after all be an injustice or a violation of measures, in spite of Nietzsche and Heraclitus. And is there not after all sometimes a tremendous strength behind weakness, the very strength of the pressure on the oppressed which brings its terrible reaction, the back return of ...
... On Thoughts and Aphorisms Aphorism - 141 141—Nietzsche saw the superman as the lion-soul passing out of camel-hood, but the true heraldic device and token of the superman is the lion seated upon the camel which stands upon the cow of plenty. If thou canst not be the slave of all mankind, thou art not fit to be its master and if thou canst not ...
... several times appeared before Mother. × Mother may be alluding to the following Aphorism (141) : "Nietzsche saw the superman as the lion-soul passing out of camelhood, but the true heraldic device and token of the superman is the lion seated upon the camel which stands upon the cow of plenty. If thou canst ...
... 582, 583 Nāsik inscription, 280, 469, 471 Nāyanikaā, 583, 584 Nearchus, 526 Nepal, 213 Newell, 236 nichā, nichaih, 266 nicham, niche, 265, 266 Nichya, 261 Nietzsche: Also Sprach Zarathustra, 385 Nighantu, 310 Nigrantha, Nigranthas, 241, 242 Nilson, H. H., 91, 127, 170, 204 Nippur tablets, 389 Nirukya, 130, 257, 310 Nisadha ...
... ape may have made the same mistake amid its revolution that produced man; perhaps it sought to become a super-ape, better equipped to climb trees, hunt and run, a more agile and clever ape. With Nietzsche we too sought a "superman" who was nothing more than a colossalization of man, and with the spiritualists a super-saint more richly endowed with virtue and wisdom. But human virtue and wisdom are ...
... blind, Beethoven, who became deaf, or Lord Nelson, who, mutilated by wounds, had to fight pain all his life. Julius Caesar suffered from epilepsy, Alexander the Great was a drunkard, and Nietzsche died insane. Gibbon had a famous hydrocele, Marat suffered frightfully from a skin disease, and Charles V had gout, arteriosclerosis, and dropsy. Many eminent men had syphilis (Henry VIII, Benvenuto ...
... English people. The latter are an Anglo-Saxon mixture. NIRODBARAN: Germany is racially purer. SRI AUROBINDO: That's humbug. The Germans are as much mixture of Slavs, Nordic Alpines and Celts. Nietzsche was a Slav. Kant was born in Pomerania and was a Slav. SATYENDRA: Goebbels says that the Allies attacked the Ruhr. So the Germans had to protect the Netherlands' neutrality. SRI AUROBINDO: Does ...
... Himself go first in reply, I'm sure about it, but He rubbed it all out! [S. A.:] ... Karl Marx himself could not have made a more economic world of it! But I wonder whether that was what Nietzsche meant by living dangerously ? [N.:] ( The next day I wrote) I am rather grieved to know that you rubbed off what you wrote, and that my attempts to draw you out have failed very narrowly ...
... and modern knowledge turns. THE MORE BEYOND And yet this is not the grand finale, the nee plus ultra. For, man does not stop with man; in the tremendous phrase carved by Nietzsche, "Man is a thing that shall be surpassed." Until and unless man surpasses himself, finds a focus and fulcrum outside and beyond his normal human – too human – self, he cannot entirely and radically ...
... NACHIKETAS, 381 Napoleon, 7, 8.. 90, 1l5, 195,208,394 Nazism, 127 Nyaya,338 Neo-Realists,317 New Testament, the, 214, 244 Newton, 301, 308, 356 Nietzsche, 16, 18-19,21-24, 130,261, 272, 358 Nineveh, 91 ODIN, 201 Old Testament, the, 214, 244 Olympus, 201, 234 Osiris, 220 PACIFIC, the, 209 Paracelsus ...
... of 26, 27; the rich endless confusion of 54; the subconscious in 28; the Yoga of 25-6, 28; transformation of 30; universal 61 nirvāna 2, 9, 22, 28, 87; the state of 43; see also mukti Nietzsche 37 niyama 26 occultism 21 On the Veda 3 Overmental consciousness 69,70 Overmind 24, 33, 34, 66, 68, 69, 72,97,98 par ā prakriti 15, 47; the Gitā's concept ...
... present human beings with extraordinary and superhuman qualities in their manifestation, but they were marked by what Indian psychology describes as Asuric or Rakshasic character. In recent times, Nietzsche has spoken of supermanhood, but when we examine the stuff and the qualities that characterize his idea of supermanhood, one feels in it the marks of the Asura or the Rakshasa. And Sri Aurobindo takes ...
... since then to the present day? Races and cultures have risen and have perished, but they have been pursuing one line, moving towards one direction—the growth of homo fabricus— the term coined by Nietzsche —Man the artisan. Man has become man through the discovery and use of tools—from tools of stone to tools of iron, that marks his growth from primitiveness to civilisation. And the degree of civilisation ...
... still more practically useful, still closer to the earthly texture of humanity. The humanism, known to Europe generally, both in its profane and religious aspects, is all "human – too human" as Nietzsche pronounced it; it was for this reason that the Promethean prophet conjured man to transcend his humanity anyhow, and rise to a superior status of culture and civilisation, of being and consciousness ...
... Mere), 228, 287n -Prieres et Meditations, 287n Mukherjee, Prabhat, 230 Mussolini, 274 NACHIKETAS, 19-20, 32-3, 35, 105 Naidu, Sarojini, 62n Nazism, 262 Newton, 300 Nietzsche, 126, 243, 297 North Pole, 27 Norway, 175 PAKISTAN, 267 Panis, 13 Parasara, 162 Pascal, Blaise, 107-13 -Le Pari, 110 -Les Provinciales, 112 Pasternak, Boris; 185-90 ...
... declared. The earliest dream of humanity is also the last fulfilment. The Vedic Rishis sang of the marriage of heaven and earth – Heaven is my father and this Earth my mother. And Blake and Nietzsche are fiery apostles of that dream and ideal in an age crippled with doubt, falsehood, smallness, crookedness, impotence, colossal ignorance. We welcome voices that speak of this ancient tradition ...
... which Science and modem knowledge turns. THE MORE BEYOND And yet this is not the grand finale, the nec plus ultra. For, man does not stop with man; in the tremendous phrase carved by Nietzsche, "Man is a thing that shall be surpassed." Until and unless man surpasses himself, finds a focus and fulcrum outside and beyond his normal human—too human—self, he cannot entirely and radically change ...
... Murray, Gilbert 55 Murry, Middleton 308, 355,412,414 Myers, F.W.H. 334,436 AWa256,458 Nehru, Jawaharlal 17 Nevinson, Henry 29 Newbolt, Sir Henry 412 Nidhu,Babu45 Nietzsche 30,400 Nirodbaran358,386,416 Noyes, Alfred 331,408 Olson, Elder 434 Omar Khayyam 262 O'Neill, Eugene 268 On Yoga, ibid.mes one & two) 20 Osgood ...
... These and other ideas, mainly derived from his mystic experience on the Holy Mountain of Athos, were woven by Kazantzakis—no doubt with an admixture of strands of thought from Bergson and Nietzsche, and perhaps also Oswald Spengler—into a philosophical memoir in a poetical style entitled Spiritual Exercises: Salvatores Dei, which in the Kazantzakis canon perhaps corresponds to The Synthesis ...
... 349, 354-5, 359, 434, 691 Naresh Bahadur 362, 652 Navajata (Keshavdev Poddar) 686, 691, 726, 816 Nehru, Jawaharlal see Jawaharlal New Age Association 716-7, 727, 739, 745, 764, 780, 816 Nietzsche 181 Nirodbaran Talukdar 136, 164, 230, 273ff, 282, 342, 357, 372, 377-8, 398-400, 408, 427, 437-8, 443-4, 489-92, 494, 505, 590, 676, 691, 816, 818 Page 915 Nishikanta Roychoudhury ...
... conspicuous, wherever I went I attracted a great deal of attention." But the attention was not due to her dress and her looks alone. For Mira Ismalun was no featherbrain. She read Renan, Taine, Nietzsche, Darwin. She was also endowed with a remarkable poise (exactly like Mother) and knew how to reconcile opposites: Page 18 "One of my most consistent character traits has been to keep ...
... Man must not rest content with his humanity, however brilliant or many-splendored. He has to win through to a new vision and follow it up to reach a peak his predecessors never dared to assault. Nietzsche had indeed heard the call- the call to transcend humanity .... But the mistake he made, as Aurobindo has pointed out, is that one who is going to fulfil humanity is Page 48 not the ...
... but, since my attire was quite elegant and rather conspicuous, I attracted a great deal of attention wherever I went.” Yet, for all that, Mira Ismalun was no featherbrain. She read Renan, Taine, Nietzsche, Darwin, and, like Mother, was endowed with a remarkable poise and knew how to reconcile opposites. "One of my most invariable policies has been to maintain the head and the heart in a constant state ...
... occupation, our sole problem, the sole question ever to be solved from age to age, the one that is now tearing our great earthly ship apart limb from painful limb is how to make this transition. Nietzsche said it also. But his superman was only a colossalization of man; we saw what he did as he tramped over Europe. That was not an evolutionary progress, only a return to the old barbarism of the blond ...
... imagining it, we are right back in the same old mechanism, merely inflating it to a higher degree; we swing on our : mental flying trapeze like the ape around his branch. That is exactly what Nietzsche did, with some flashes of genius. But this Need within, completely pure, this pressing Flame, this hole of nothing filled with fire by its sheer need of being ’ something, anything, a stork, a horse ...
... which made them stand worlds apart, as if Nature took pleasure in devising the counter-type or anti-type of each being—and the more powerful the model, the more powerful the anti-model, so to speak. Nietzsche had died just four years earlier—another curious model, or anti-model, we do not know which. Anti-models may well have been devised by Nature to force the models to go beyond themselves and to grow ...
... Golden Age can be done in its most concentrated and most effective form. The cycles of the human evolution are not exact and eternal repetitions of a given sequence of events, as is for instance Nietzsche’s “eternal return”, but “cycles of a growing but still imperfect harmony and synthesis”. Nature brings man back “violently to her original principles, sometimes even to something like her earlier ... the old intellectual standards, a swift breaking of the old tables. The materialism of the nineteenth century gave place first to a novel and profound vitalism which has taken various forms from Nietzsche’s theory of the Will to be and Will to Power as the root and law of life to the new pluralistic and pragmatic philosophy … “These tendencies of thought, which had until yesterday a profound influence... This remark remained valid long after the Great War (i.e. the First World War), considering Bergson’s influence on Jean-Paul Sartre (see Bernard-Henri Lévy: Le Siècle de Sartre ) and Nietzsche’s influence on Michel Foucault and others. × Sri Aurobindo: The Human Cycle, p. 30. ...
... n of Descartes’ philosophical re-evaluation of the bases of Western knowledge was revealed to him in three dreams. August Comte, the theorist of positivism, launched a new religion of humanity. Nietzsche’s thinking, however this-worldly in its intention, started from and returned to a-material suppositions. And theoretical physics in the last one hundred years has been leading up to “the matter myth” ...
... powerful, to dominate his environment and his fellows and to raise himself on this strenuous and egoistic line to his full stature of capacity and reap his full measure of enjoyment. Philosophies like Nietzsche's, certain forms of Anarchism,—not the idealistic Anarchism of the thinker which is rather the old individualism of the ideal reason carried to its logical conclusion,—certain forms too of Imperialism ...
... standards, a swift breaking of the old tables. The Page 29 materialism of the nineteenth century gave place first to a novel and profound vitalism which has taken various forms from Nietzsche's theory of the Will to be and Will to Power as the root and law of life to the new pluralistic and pragmatic philosophy which is pluralistic because it has its eye fixed on life rather than on the ...
... his ignorance. In the mind of his century and the previous one, the belief in God’s existence had faded from self-evident to a rationally accepted opinion, then to doubt, and finally to denial. Nietzsche’s Zarathustra will proclaim the death of the Christian God. As the historian A.N. Wilson writes, God had disappeared like, in Alice in Wonderland, the smile of the Cheshire Cat. Darwin’s Conversion ...
... novel ideas are sweeping over the world and are being accepted with a significant rapidity, ideas inevitably subversive of any premature typal order of economic rationalism, dynamic ideas such as Nietzsche's Will-to-live, Bergson's exaltation of Intuition above intellect or the latest German philosophical tendency to acknowledge a suprarational faculty and a suprarational order of truths. Already another ...
... far-off promise.18 Is this to place our ideal too high? Listen again to Sri Aurobindo: To follow after the highest in us may seem to be to live dangerously, to use again one of Nietzsche's inspired expressions, but by that danger comes victory and security. To rest in or follow after an inferior potentiality may seem safe rational, comfortable, easy, but it ends badly, in some futility ...
... physical sciences. In this they followed the spirit of their times, the nineteenth century, when, as one author puts it, God gradually disappeared like the smile of Lewis Carroll’s Cheshire Cat, and Nietzsche’s declaration of the death of God resounded through the vaults of the Western mind. Today this mentality has not softened among some of the most prominent savants and widely read publicists. Stephen ...
... The Human Cycle. × It should be recalled in passing that the correct translation of Friedrich Nietzsche’s term Übermensch is also ‘overman’ and not ‘superman.’ The author of this book avoids as much as possible gender-specific language. However, the language of the Mother and Sri Aurobindo follows ...
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