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Nietzsche
“Nietzsche.” (3 March 2025)
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Nietzsche is GritCult's patron philosopher, the hammer he swings against comfort, resentment and the herd. Not a tragic nihilist but a prophet of self-overcoming, suffering loved on purpose, and the will to become more. He reads Nietzsche as scripture for men who refuse to stay small.

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The core of it is self-overcoming. The snake that cannot shed its skin perishes [1], so a man must never stop evolving, carrying his own ashes to the mountains and inventing a brighter flame [2]. GritCult treats this as a test anyone can actually run: eternal recurrence. The question is whether a man would make this exact choice, and live this exact life, over and over forever [3]. If not, he should change it. And the formula underneath it all is amor fati: to want nothing other than it is, not merely to endure necessity but to love it [4].

Suffering is the whole point, not the obstacle. He who has a why to live can bear almost any how [5]. He doesn't read this as masochism but as the only honest aim left, to perish in pursuit of the great and the impossible [6]. Comfort is the sin, and there's more wisdom in the body than in the deepest philosophy [7]. He turns this into a daily practice: a man should gain an intuitive sense of his own body several times a day, through scanning meditation or prayer.

Morally he's allergic to resentment: that ugly, impotent emotion the strong cannot even feel [8]. In his reading the overman is the one willing to risk all for the sake of enhancement of humanity, set against the last man whose sole desire is his own comfort [9]. Faith is the awkward fit. He twice shared the line, credited to Nietzsche, that only a person of deep faith can afford the luxury of scepticism [10], yet he also notes that Nietzsche hates Christianity and communism alike as slave moralities [11]. On one point he sides with Nietzsche outright: weakness is not a virtue, which he reads as cutting against a main teaching of Christianity, even as he says he would rather pray to God looking beautiful [12].

Recurring themes

  • self-overcoming / shedding the skin
  • eternal recurrence as a decision test
  • amor fati, the love of one's fate
  • suffering as fuel, a why to bear any how
  • wisdom of the body
  • resentment as weakness, the übermensch ideal

Notable post

The most retweeted GritCult post on the subject, with 5,380 retweets:

Nietzsche.
GRITCULT on X, 3 March 2025

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3 March 20255,38032,579Nietzsche.Post imageView
16 January 20253,18427,635Nietzsche on marriage.

Crazy how true this is. Most relationships can even be summed up with this.
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26 January 20251,38812,431Nietzsche on Habits:Post imageView
9 May 20257566,363Nietzsche.Post imageView
18 November 20235103,110“If you kill a cockroach you are a hero, if you kill a butterfly you are bad. Morality has aesthetic standards.”

— Nietzsche
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16 February 20253112,778"I know of no better aim of life than that of perishing in pursuit of the great and the impossible."

- Nietzsche
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4 October 20253063,900Nietzsche’s test for any decision:

If you had to live this exact life over and over, infinitely, would you still make this choice?

Eternal recurrence.
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1 April 20252462,033Nietzsche.Post imageView
28 January 20252212,718Nietzsche on solitude.Post imageView
7 September 20251631,272NietzschePost imageView
26 January 20261141,125Nietzschean penguin edits go hardVideo stillView
24 September 2025991,430"The snake that cannot shed its skin perishes."

- Nietzsche

Never stop evolving friends.
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4 December 202472806Gm

Nietzsche. The strongest men find happiness in disaster.
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21 March 202468473I know of no better life purpose than to perish in attempting the great and the impossible.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
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25 July 202458495"I overcame myself, the sufferer; I carried my own ashes to the mountains; I invented a brighter flame for myself."

- Friedrich Nietzsche
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12 June 201838174Huxley knew, Nietzsche knew.

over reliance on the intellect. too reliant, too myopic, narrowed in.

technocratic Keynesian economists lent me to this view, against hubris

one must cultivate all aspects of character, to be well rounded and moderated as aristotle referenced.
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3 September 202536516“It is not enough to possess a talent

One must also have your permission to possess it.”

- Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
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18 August 202531511Mike Mentzer on Nietzsche.Post imageView
25 December 202419231"If you crush a cockroach, you're a hero. If you crush a beautiful butterfly, you're a villain. Morals have aesthetic criteria."

— Nietzsche
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7 January 202519202🧵 Nietzsche on Peak Performance

In 1879, Nietzsche discovered how to transform human potential:

"All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking."

"The sedentary life is the very sin against the Holy Spirit." His insights:
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7 September 202518432Mentzer on NietzschePost imageView
7 December 202516223Nietzsche. What a goddamn line.Post imageView
14 August 202416125"No price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself."

—Friedrich Nietzsche
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30 September 20191367learn to love the process, its the best solution to when you have long term goals that require grinding it out. sometimes there is no other solution, and amor fati is the only reasonable conclusion.View
4 August 20211367Huxley knew, Nietzsche knew.

over reliance on the intellect. too reliant, too myopic, narrowed in.

technocratic Keynesian economists lent me to this view, against hubris

one must cultivate all aspects of character, to be well rounded and moderated as aristotle referenced.
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27 September 20181323Calm is my soul and clear, like mountains in the morning. But they think me cold...

- nietzsche
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14 April 202612192hot take: women doing esoteric group exercises, being picky eaters avoiding seed oils in and getting lots of sun in bali is a good thing

this is will to power, vitalism and self improvement

just doesnt look like how you expect it to. we should encourage more people to do this
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25 June 202512187Nietzsche on marriage.

Crazy how true this is. Most relationships can even be summed up with this.

Marriage as a long conversation.
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8 December 20191255There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy. #NietzscheView
13 April 202511149You must have chaos in you to give birth to a dancing star.

Nietzsche.
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29 January 202611114NietzschePost imageView
7 March 202610413day 1 on retatrutide. i feel the power oh human ingenuity coursing through my veins, this is how prometheus felt. this is the most spiritual experience ive had since reading nietzsche for the first time. the fog is lifting. my ancestors are smiling down upon me. summer is here.Video stillView
6 October 20191064@kanyewest Who is @kanyewest ? I believe he is one of the strongest candidates that embody the nietzschean ideal of the ubermensch.
He lashes out against those who are "mentally enslaved". Mr. West has built an entire career of reinventing himself and thinking for himself. He is contrarian
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9 November 2024967"My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati:

that one wants nothing to be other than it is, not in the future, not in the past, not in all eternity.

Not merely to endure that which happens of necessity . . . but to love it."

Nietzsche
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17 March 2026961Nietzsche.Post imageView
13 December 2019925"Creation - that is the great redemption from all suffering"
Nietzsche.
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2 May 2026888"He who has a why to live can bear almost any how."

- Nietzsche
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25 June 2021840GOGGINS is an avatar of what the human mind can achieve if purified and set upon the highest paths. It is day one, hour one. Again and again. GOGGINS is the avatar of eternal recurrence, he does not seek to live in comfort but through transcendental pain.View
10 October 2021834"ONLY A PERSON OF DEEP FAITH CAN AFFORD THE LUXURY OF SKEPTICISM." - FRIEDRICH WILHELM NIETZSCHEView
15 July 2021751"ONLY A PERSON OF DEEP FAITH CAN AFFORD THE LUXURY OF SKEPTICISM." - FRIEDRICH WILHELM NIETZSCHEView
23 October 2020746Resentment is an expression of weakness and impotence. Nietzsche is against resentment because it is an ugly, bitter emotion which the strong and powerful do not and cannot feel.

- Robert Solomon
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20 February 2021725THE DEEPEST WISDOM RESIDES IN THE BELLY - NIETZSCHE

You need to gain intuitive sense of your own body, how you feel, every day and every night, multiple times a day

you can do this by scanning meditation or by praying multiple times during the day.
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25 January 20266143NietzschePost imageView
9 October 20256136Nietzsche talking about Caesar.Post imageView
29 March 2021668THERE IS MORE WISDOM IN YOUR BODY THAN IN YOUR DEEPEST PHILOSOPHY. NIETZSCHEView
12 June 2018626nietzsche tackled this modernist nihilism in Zarathustra

An overman, is the one who is willing to risk all for the sake of enhancement of humanity.

In contrary to the last man whose sole desire is his own comfort and is incapable of creating anything beyond oneself in any form
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9 February 2018550shower thoughts: maybe the rise in stoicism has been what Nietzsche was talking about the ubermensch start to making their own values in a world that has no meaning.View
12 February 2021510"WHOEVER BATTLES MONSTERS SHOULD TAKE CARE NOT TO BECOME A MONSTER TOO, FOR IF YOU STARE LONG ENOUGH INTO THE ABYSS, THE ABYSS STARES ALSO INTO YOU." - FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHEView
7 January 2025434"There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy."
- Move before deep work
- Eat for brain optimization
if you want to max brain performance, you NEED to max out body performance.
"The body is the mind's first teacher." - Nietzsche
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5 May 2021428RESENTMENT IS AN EXPRESSION OF WEAKNESS AND IMPOTENCE. NIETZSCHE IS AGAINST RESENTMENT BECAUSE IT IS AN UGLY, BITTER EMOTION WHICH THE STRONG AND POWERFUL DO NOT AND CANNOT FEEL.

- ROBERT SOLOMON
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22 August 2018418Love your enemies because they bring out the best in you. #NietzscheView
18 September 2018410I think ive come to realise foucoult was onto something with his power dynamic relationship stemming from nietzsche.

But i think they didnt go far enough

Power dynamics can exist between:
Biology. Man or beast
Memetics. Ideas et al
Corporeal material

Everything
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21 January 2020410"You have to be a sea to absorb a dirty stream without getting dirty.”

Nietzsche
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1 November 201843“It has gradually become clear to me what every great philosophy up till now has consisted of – namely, the confession of its originator, and a species of involuntary and unconscious autobiography.” — Nietzsche.View
15 July 2021318RESENTMENT IS AN EXPRESSION OF WEAKNESS AND IMPOTENCE. NIETZSCHE IS AGAINST RESENTMENT BECAUSE IT IS AN UGLY, BITTER EMOTION WHICH THE STRONG AND POWERFUL DO NOT AND CANNOT FEEL. - ROBERT SOLOMONView
31 March 2020317GOGGINS is an avatar of what the human mind can achieve if purified and set upon the highest paths. It is day one, hour one. Again and again. GOGGINS is the avatar of eternal recurrence, he does not seek to live in comfort but through transcendental pain.Post imageView
3 May 2018313bertrand russel - good at maths, meh at philosophy
noam chomsky - good at linguistics, meh at philosophy
nietzsche - good at philosophy, mad in real life
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18 October 2019313“As is well known, the priests are the most evil enemies—but why?

Because they are the most impotent.“

-Nietzsche.
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18 April 2019311"The depths swallow them! —
But you, Zarathustra,
Still love the abyss"

"One must have wings,
if one loves the abyss ...

One must not remain suspended"
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29 August 2018310ideological traps :

where you hold and idea
and it reaches out from the void and grips you back
be careful some language is malicious code to your mindware
i understand this now

insert nietzsche re. abyss and the abyss staring into you also
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12 June 2021244LEARN TO LOVE THE PROCESS, ITS THE BEST SOLUTION TO WHEN YOU HAVE LONG TERM GOALS THAT REQUIRE GRINDING IT OUT. SOMETIMES THERE IS NO OTHER SOLUTION, AND AMOR FATI IS THE ONLY REASONABLE CONCLUSION.View
1 April 2021243None of these productivity gurus will be remembered like Nietzsche is.View
31 July 2021224RESENTMENT IS AN EXPRESSION OF WEAKNESS AND IMPOTENCE. NIETZSCHE IS AGAINST RESENTMENT BECAUSE IT IS AN UGLY, BITTER EMOTION WHICH THE STRONG AND POWERFUL DO NOT AND CANNOT FEEL.

- ROBERT SOLOMON
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22 November 2021221HE WHO HAS A WHY TO LIVE CAN BEAR ALMOST ANY HOW. - FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHEView
12 June 2021220CALM IS MY SOUL AND CLEAR, LIKE MOUNTAINS IN THE MORNING. BUT THEY THINK ME COLD...

- NIETZSCHE
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10 June 2019217@naval As a fan of Nietzsche.

I can say if he had aimed to buy his freedom firstly.

He wouldn’t have died mad, alone, childless and diseased.
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1 February 2020211nobility is the ability to be different as per nietzscheView
21 December 20192611. Sex, hunger, violence are all motives.

As is the will to power.
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20 June 201825@ALT_70V3 @yungdeleuze @mwilcox @desantis @markhamthomson dont think of time as circle thats nietzsche misunderstood

think of it as the 4th dimension

we are 3d- so cant abstract out into *knowing* outside it

2d = circle. [cant see higher dimension]
3d = sphere [meat space]
4d = line of where sphere will be and has been (time&space)
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29 October 202212650 cent is a greater philosopher than NietzscheView
7 January 2025126"It is only ideas gained from walking that have any worth."

- Take more LONG philosophical walks in solitude.

He was also big on solitude & silence. Forget music, do what Nietzsche called "The great cultivation of silence."
"Without great solitude, no serious work is…
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4 September 2018117"Regarding life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless."

- Friedrich Nietzsche

pic related
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29 November 2019114Morality is herd instinct in the individual. #NietzscheView
25 April 2023112This is what I meant about a authoritarian daddy figure

Read Nietzsche.

Fuck ur rat utopia.

Optimise for what you think is best not what randoms say on social media 😂
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10 June 2019110@naval Was that the same excuse he used to propose to the same woman 3 times and get cucked by his friend.

Trust me. I respect Nietzschean thought but I do not worship the man who was but flesh and bone.

I do not want to idolise anyone.
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19 December 2019110Motivation is an external locus of control.

Everything you do should be driven by an internal force, a will, a will to power.
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27 September 201818ambition:

creating yourself (self authorship)
creating the future (wisdom as future abstraction)

trying to align the two

ubermensch = control over memes
лишний человек superflous man

borrows from the great man theory of history, napoleon, caesar et al
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16 August 201817Self-actualization :

i disagree with maslow here and agree with Nietzsche

self actualisation is not for everyone, otherwise more would do it.
reserved for specific individuals

plenty are slaves to their demons, unable to do battle with them
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4 May 201816nikola tesla
isaac newton
nietzsche
andy warhol
Immanuel Kant

all were genius'

they were all incels too
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27 March 202016YOU HAVE TO HAVE CHAOS IN YOU TO GIVE BIRTH TO A DANCING STAR

NIETZSCHE
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18 October 201815Joseph Conrad. Who I am a fan of myself.

Atheism/life philosophy as akin to be a seaman. At awe of being subject to the sea. Something larger and more uncontrollable than self.

(Personally I think it echoes alot of absurdist and Nietzschean sentiment with a dash of aesthetic)
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24 February 201813NietzscheView
26 May 201813why do i think most people do not understand time

either
a) most people are wrong
or
b) time in fact does not exist (as a concept)

hearing people say "time is non linear "time is a circle"(misinterpretations of nietzsche are as history has shown to be DEADLY)
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16 August 201813When he wrote, The Wanderer and His Shadow,

he walked, alone, for up to eight hours a day.

Nietzsche would stop to scribble notes in small notebooks with a pencil.

The entire book, except for a few lines, was thought out and composed en route.
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4 March 201811@roinoir Bro if you knew the point. Ppl will sell u their mothers to know. Million dollar question.

There is no meaning. Sorry.
Only that which you give "it"
Do you want live good. Or not care is the question.
You are meant to look this nihilism and overcome it.(Nietzsche)
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1 November 201810@333BDC same with Nietzsche !

but "rules" for interpretation are not for infinite players
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19 July 2022026@DejaRu22 This guy tried to compete with Nietzsche in being the youngest professor at the time. Knew multiple languages and produced multiple works. Used to read like crazy. Was obsessed with learning. Also lied to enlist in military. Highly critical of everything the government did.View
10 April 2021025DMX WAS NIETZSCHEANView
13 December 2019020Was reading Nietzsche on Goethe while at work today. Felt like a warm embrace of an old friend.

Beautiful.

I recommend everyone read it too
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21 July 2020013Kanye is crazy?

No he is chaotic. Big difference.

You must have chaos in you to give birth to a dancing star - Nietzsche.
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5 December 202008Yes. Both operate from the same points. The meek shall inherit the earth.

Also why Nietzsche hates both as slave moralities.

The simpleton worker is not always a winner but is redeemed in communism and Christianity.
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10 July 202108LEARN TO LOVE THE PROCESS, ITS THE BEST SOLUTION TO WHEN YOU HAVE LONG TERM GOALS THAT REQUIRE GRINDING IT OUT. SOMETIMES THERE IS NO OTHER SOLUTION, AND AMOR FATI IS THE ONLY REASONABLE CONCLUSION.View
7 February 202007@NE0GRIT id rather pray to GOD looking beautiful and aesthetic.

weakness is not a virtue. which goes against one of the main teachings of christianity imo. im a nietzschean in this regard.
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15 March 201906Shower thought :

If you believe in acta non verba, actions over words. Then the best argument against Nietzsche is his own life. He hated those academics and what not, but wasn't he one? A contentious point, sure.

In symbol minded terms :
Mad : Nietzsche.
Glad : Goethe.
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27 May 201906@PJM_Says @loopuleasa @robinhanson @naval @LifeMathMoney @DentesLeo @CryptoSeneca @DavidDeutschOxf @bengoertzel @mmay3r @CrazyPolymath @G_S_Bhogal @0x49fa98 @DellAnnaLuca @unfinishthought @AmuseChimp @EricRWeinstein @Kpaxs @JamesClear @farnamstreet better to have pecs before attempting to deconstruct philosophy for instance

many get lost in the sauce. including many famous philosophers. Nietzsche being the most famous

strong stable foundations are necessary to build glorious monuments of thought.
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4 October 201906interesting use of the phrase "eat you up", yes. this is precise

Nietzsche uses a similar metaphor

"Whoever tends to descend here,
How quickly
The depths swallow them! —
But you, Zarathustra,
Still love the abyss "

The force is from the source of GOD. You must rise up!
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17 January 202005@loopuleasa on religion and ethics and morality

these questions have no deadline of submission

is there a morality

personally i believe morality is not logical, whether this nietzschean view scales is another argument.
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9 May 201904@SeloSlav Yes there is, intrasexual conflict.

As you pointed out yourself those Institutions are beta male orientated.

This is the point of Nietzsche and those who ought to have transcended morality

Opiates for the masses

I don't disagree with you, Nietzschean morality doesn't scale
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11 April 202104@BGZeroTwoOne @Liber_Rex @0x49fa98 Although I’ve criticised Nietzsche for being a simp. I think the tweet u have in mind is from 0hpView
10 September 201803@jdconners @MimeticValue @cognazor @dopaminendreams @AlexanderBlum0 well on the other hand the black plague led to the age of enlightenment

war as the eternal machine to thin the herd
to select ubermensch up and elevate them above the normie plebs

all societies had a underclass

spartans used to hunt helots

most ppl are descended from slaves
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11 September 201803i can see why Nietzsche hated Christianity

slave morality has been sewn within it

it wont succeed without vast contradiction
slaves for vast past of history were put to the sword and slain

african american slaves were given bibles and indoctrinated
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30 June 201903@LandsharkRides @DarrenAronofsky My view on this is Nietzschean.View
15 March 202003We talking about internal and external jihad and practical and pragmatic prayer.

And now quoting Nietzsche
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4 December 201802@tobidire This is normal behaviour. (Although Hidden)

Also Friedrich Nietzsche ... "Man shall be trained for war, and woman for the recreation of the warrior: all else is folly."

Women want what will benefit them.
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24 February 201801nietzsche, napoleon and hitler, called britain a nation of shop keepers.
n adam smith.
higher income per capita despite half the population of france let us beat napoleon.
democratic free trade allowed us to stand up against hitler.
corner shops are cornerstones of britain
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7 April 201801Amor fatiView
11 April 201801War essential. I welcome all signs that a more virile, warlike age is about to begin, which will restore honor to courage above all. - Friedrich Nietzsche on the necessity of war.View
11 April 201801And if ye cannot be saints of knowledge, then, I pray you, be at least its warriors. They are the companions and forerunners of such saintship.

Friedrich Nietzsche - Thus Spake Zarathurstra
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22 April 201801Nietzsche:
What is good? Everything that heightens the feeling of power in man, the will to power, power itself.
What is bad? Everything that is born of weakness.
What is happiness? The feeling that power increases—that a resistance is overcome
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15 August 201801@aalexis1234 NietzscheView
1 March 201901@Rahmeljackson More NietzscheView
31 March 202101@alt1na1 Nietzschean morality doesn’t always go with Christian moralityView
11 April 201800I am naturally warlike. Attacking is one of my instincts. Being able to be an enemy, being an enemy — these require a strong nature, perhaps; in any case every strong nature presupposes them. - Friedrich NietzscheView
22 April 201800nietzsche :
significantly enlightening to substitute for the individual 'happiness' (for which every living being is supposed to strive) power [...] joy is only a symptom of the feeling of attained power [...] (one does not strive for joy [...] joy accompanies; joy does not move
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22 April 201800"The free man is a warrior." - Friedrich NietzscheView
2 May 201800- NietzscheView
5 May 201800My mum: don't be crude
Me : goes on a rant of man over coming and how nietzsche would not have succumbed to censoring his language.
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27 July 201800Thought update :

stoicism is merely a tool to be utilised, depending on the situation

still hold same view on ubermensch and ability to construct ones own value system
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11 August 201800@prius_1995 similar to Nietzsche

there are differing moral environments, some suit some better than others
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2 November 201800@R_L51 @Pat_Stedman @mistermircea He says of Jungs theory was a springboard for feminism and the 60s sexual climate.
Cite:

Although ive heard Nietzsche could be called the first feminist too.

And I use that as a soundboard for my own thread on emasculation
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History

GritCult first posted about Nietzsche on 9 February 2018, and most recently on 2 May 2026. Across the archive the subject comes up 123 times, most often in 2018 (37 posts).

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References

  1. ^GRITCULT [@GRITCULT] (24 September 2025). The snake that cannot shed its skin perishes... Never stop evolving friends. X.
  2. ^GRITCULT [@GRITCULT] (25 July 2024). I carried my own ashes to the mountains; I invented a brighter flame for myself. X.
  3. ^GRITCULT [@GRITCULT] (4 October 2025). If you had to live this exact life over and over, infinitely, would you still make this choice? Eternal recurrence. X.
  4. ^GRITCULT [@GRITCULT] (9 November 2024). amor fati: that one wants nothing to be other than it is... but to love it. X.
  5. ^GRITCULT [@GRITCULT] (2 May 2026). He who has a why to live can bear almost any how. X.
  6. ^GRITCULT [@GRITCULT] (16 February 2025). I know of no better aim of life than that of perishing in pursuit of the great and the impossible. X.
  7. ^GRITCULT [@GRITCULT] (8 December 2019). There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy. X.
  8. ^GRITCULT [@GRITCULT] (23 October 2020). Resentment is an expression of weakness... the strong and powerful do not and cannot feel. X.
  9. ^GRITCULT [@GRITCULT] (12 June 2018). An overman, is the one who is willing to risk all for the sake of enhancement of humanity... the last man whose sole desire is his own comfort. X.
  10. ^GRITCULT [@GRITCULT] (15 July 2021). ONLY A PERSON OF DEEP FAITH CAN AFFORD THE LUXURY OF SKEPTICISM. X.
  11. ^GRITCULT [@GRITCULT] (5 December 2020). Also why Nietzsche hates both as slave moralities. X.
  12. ^GRITCULT [@GRITCULT] (7 February 2020). id rather pray to GOD looking beautiful and aesthetic... weakness is not a virtue. which goes against one of the main teachings of christianity imo. im a nietzschean in this regard. X.