“From the Future of Marriage. Those noble, free-minded women who set themselves the task of educating and elevating the female sex should not overlook one factor: marriage conceived of in its higher interpretation, the spiritual friendship of two people of the opposite sexes, that is, as marriage hoped for in the future, entered into forContinue reading “RKS Literature: From the Future of Marriage (Friedrich Nietzsche)”
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RKS Literature: Friendship and Marriage (Friedrich Nietzsche)
“Friendship and Marriage. The best friend will probably get the best wife, because a good marriage is based on talent for friendship.” Friedrich Nietzsche, “Human, All Too Human”, 1878.
RKS Literature: Marriage as a Long Conversation (Friedrich Nietzsche)
“Marriage as a Long Conversation. When entering a marriage one should ask the question: do you think you will be able to have good conversations with this woman right into old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory, but most of the time in interaction is spent in conversation.” Friedrich Nietzsche, “Human, All Too Human”,Continue reading “RKS Literature: Marriage as a Long Conversation (Friedrich Nietzsche)”
RKS Literature: Desire to Avenge and Vengeance (Friedrich Nietzsche)
“Desire to avenge and vengeance. To have thoughts of revenge and execute them means to be struck with a violent-but temporary fever. But to have thoughts of revenge without the strength or courage to execute them means to endure a chronic suffering, a poisoning of body and soul.” Friedrich Nietzsche, “Human, All Too Human”, 1878.
RKS Literature: Goodwill (Friedrich Nietzsche)
“Among the small but endlessly abundant and therefore very effective things that science ought to heed more than the great, rare things, is goodwill. I mean those expressions of a friendly disposition, in interactions, that smile of the eye, those handclasps, that ease which usually envelops nearly all human actions. Every teacher, every official bringsContinue reading “RKS Literature: Goodwill (Friedrich Nietzsche)”
RKS Literature: The Hierarchy of Good (Friedrich Nietzsche)
“The hierarchy of good, however, is not fixed and identical at all times. If someone prefers revenge to justice, he is moral by the standard of an earlier culture, yet by the standard of the present culture he is immoral. ‘Immoral’ then indicates that someone has not felt, or not felt strongly enough, the higher,Continue reading “RKS Literature: The Hierarchy of Good (Friedrich Nietzsche)”
RKS Literature: Leaving Dead Bodies in the Woods as a Matter of Course (James Fenimore Cooper)
“The whole party moved swiftly through the narrow path, toward the north, leaving the healing waters to mingle unheeded with the adjacent brooks and the bodies of the dead to fester on the neighbouring mount, without the rites of sepulture; a fate but too common to the warriors of the woods to excite either commiserationContinue reading “RKS Literature: Leaving Dead Bodies in the Woods as a Matter of Course (James Fenimore Cooper)”
RKS Literature: Rosie and the Priest (Giovanni Boccaccio)
“So to begin, there’s a village not far from here called Varlungo, as every one of you knows or will have heard from other people. I had once a valiant priest, a fine figure of a man who served the ladies well. He was not much of a reader, but every Sunday he would spoutContinue reading “RKS Literature: Rosie and the Priest (Giovanni Boccaccio)”
RKS Literature: The Good Book and the Reality in the Colonial Woods (James Fenimore Cooper)
“I have heard it said that there are men who read in books to convince themselves there is a God. I know not but man may so deform his works in the settlement, as to leave that which is so clear in the wilderness a matter of doubt among traders and priests. If any suchContinue reading “RKS Literature: The Good Book and the Reality in the Colonial Woods (James Fenimore Cooper)”
RKS Literature: Riccardo da Chinzica loses his wife (Giovanni Boccaccio)
“There was once a judge in Pisa with more brains than muscle called Messer Riccardo da Chinzica, who may have thought that what worked well with his studies would satisfy a wife too. Being very rich, he was able to devote considerable time and effort to searching for a good-looking young lady to marry, whereasContinue reading “RKS Literature: Riccardo da Chinzica loses his wife (Giovanni Boccaccio)”
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