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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wayside" data-source="post: 484665" data-attributes="member: 8394">Oubliette,Yes, it is from one of Nietzsche's notebooks.  After he died his sister collected them and published them as a book, The Will to Power, widely misinterpreted then and for a long time after as his crowning systematic achievement.  Really though, it's just a collection of pointed thoughts on specific subjects, so even if you aren't well versed in western philosophy it is a good read.  The section on the will to power as art is about 40 pages; much of the rest of the book is very much existentialist, concerned with nihilism and revaluating morals and methods, things like that.  Nietzsche, along with Plato, really is the most literary of philosophers.I don't necessarily agree with the quote myself, though: metaphysics and the philosophies of emotion and language have come a long way since Nietzsche was writing.  Still, it's enough to quiet the pretentious people you're likely to encounter at poetry readings or galleries.. quoting Nietzsche is almost like quoting Freud (only N. still has some semblance of authority)--their names are widely known though it seems very few have actually read them."What is well-known is not necessarily known merely because it is well known." -- HegelI've kind of run on here, havn't I? eep<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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