What was God's first mistake?

God's first mistake: man did not think animals entertaining, – he dominated them, he did not even wish to be an “animal”. Consequently God created woman. And boredom did indeed cease from that moment, but many other things ceased as well! Woman was God's second mistake.
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Why did Friedrich Nietzsche say woman is God's second mistake?

I would have to say Nietzsche said this because Women's will to power instinct is usually secondary to her herding instinct.
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Is man merely a mistake of God?

Neither man is a mistake of God Nor God is mistake of Man. Both are just following their path.
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Was Nietzsche inspired by Schopenhauer?

Nietzsche abandoned his former enthusiasm for Schopenhauer's philosophy because he came to conceive of Schopenhauer's advocacy of quietism as symptomatic of decadence, of a descending order of life that is tired and impaired and unable to enjoy and relish life in the way that alone the most physiologically and ...
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Did Nietzsche read the Bible?

As the only descendant of two dynasties of Protestant ministers, Nietzsche learned to read from the Bible, in Luther's translation, which he inherited from his father and used for the rest of his life.
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Which philosopher said life is suffering?

To begin with, however, the above-mentioned diagnosis of life delivered by both philosophers will be discussed: life is suffering. 4 As a metaphysician Schopenhauer believes that there must be a true Being that is the absolute essence of things.
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Why is Nietzsche so famous?

Friedrich Nietzsche was a German philosopher who became one of the most influential of all modern thinkers. His attempts to unmask the motives that underlie traditional Western religion, morality, and philosophy deeply affected generations of theologians, philosophers, psychologists, poets, novelists, and playwrights.
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What is the meaning of Nietzsche?

Noun. 1. Nietzsche - influential German philosopher remembered for his concept of the superman and for his rejection of Christian values; considered, along with Kierkegaard, to be a founder of existentialism (1844-1900)
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What Nietzsche said about nihilism?

According to Nietzsche, this state of nihilism – the idea that life has no meaning or value – cannot be avoided; we must go through it, as frightening and lonely as that will be.
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Do nihilists believe in God?

By rejecting man's spiritual essence in favor of a solely materialistic one, nihilists denounced God and religious authority as antithetical to freedom.
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What is the opposite of a nihilist?

Antonyms & Near Antonyms for nihilist. optimist, Pollyanna.
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Who were famous nihilists?

Nihilism has existed in one form or another for hundreds of years, but is usually associated with Friedrich Nietzsche, the 19th century German philosopher (and pessimist of choice for high school kids with undercuts) who proposed that existence is meaningless, moral codes worthless, and God is dead.
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Who said God Dead?

Nietzsche, as a mid-19th-century German philosopher, first declared God dead in the context of this idealism. He might just as well simultaneously have declared "reason" dead.
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Who did Nietzsche admire?

Nietzsche was also an admirer and frequent reader of Ralph Waldo Emerson. Among the German poets, he greatly admired and mentioned in his works Friedrich Hölderlin and Heinrich Heine.
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Which philosopher said life has no meaning?

The 19th-century philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, for example, said the question itself was meaningless because in the midst of living, we're in no position to discern whether our lives matter, and stepping outside of the process of existence to answer is impossible.
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Did Nietzsche believe in free will?

Power of will

In Beyond Good and Evil Nietzsche criticizes the concept of free will both negatively and positively. He calls it a folly resulting from extravagant pride of man; and calls the idea a crass stupidity.
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What did Nietzsche believe?

In his works, Nietzsche questioned the basis of good and evil. He believed that heaven was an unreal place or “the world of ideas”. His ideas of atheism were demonstrated in works such as “God is dead”. He argued that the development of science and emergence of a secular world were leading to the death of Christianity.
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Why do we suffer to live?

To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering – Frederick Nietzsche.
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Why do we live just to suffer?

Quotes. Kazuhira Miller : Why are we still here? Just to suffer?
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Why do we suffer?

Suffering is a product of the fall, a consequence of human sin against God (Romans 5:12; 1 Corinthians 15:21). Suffering is in our lives because we are living in a broken world. Some suffering is due to our sinful and wrong choices, but some is due simply to the world being fallen.
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Who created the God?

We ask, "If all things have a creator, then who created God?" Actually, only created things have a creator, so it's improper to lump God with his creation. God has revealed himself to us in the Bible as having always existed. Atheists counter that there is no reason to assume the universe was created.
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Who will wipe this blood off us?

God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives: who will wipe this blood off us?
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What are the four types of nihilism?

Based on this passage one can see that the first three types of nihilism; moral, epistemological, and cosmic, each negate meaning from an important area of life where human beings have traditionally searched for it.
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