Oedipus Rex

a mistake of mans?
             6) What does not destroy us will only make us stronger
             7) Man does not strive for pleasure; only the Englishman does
             8) Man has created woman our of a rib of god- His "ideal"
             9) We are never understood and therefore we have authority
             10) Woman is an attempt to assassinate all our reality and truth
             11) Artists want only two things, bread and art
             12) Lay will into things, or at least put meaning into them so that one can have faith that they are obeying a "will"
             13) Virtue is renouncing "advantages"
             14) The perfect woman exudes literature as she does sin and tries so make someone notice her sin.
             15) One may not have any sham virtues. One either stands, falls, or runs away
             16) "Evil men have no songs" then why do the Russians sing?
             17) "German spirit" is a contradiction in terms
             18) Contentment protects even against colds if a woman ever caught a cold I'm assuming that she wasn't dressed.
             19) The will to a system is a lack of integrity
             20) Women never fathom their depths.
             21) There is a hatred of lies and simulation stemming form an easily provoked sense of honor
             22) The sedentary life is the very sin against the Holy Spirit
             23) Human beings are the apes of their ideals
             24) He who laughs best today will also laugh last.( Pgs. 467-470) Twilight of the Idols
             In this portion, Nietzsche attacks Socrates, Plato, and most of his other predecessors in ancient Greek. At first he approaches the subject by accusing the "wisest men of all ages" of being insane, that their arguments have little to know merit because there is not "fact" or "intelligence" to back them up, and that they should be scrutinized closely. Socrates and Plato exceptionally were "tools of the Greek dissolution" because they both adopted the same negative attitudes towards life and only had value as "symptoms". T...

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