"Twilight of the Idol's' caught my eye It was kind of a catchy title, and it was the last thing that Nietzsche wrote that had any merit before he went crazy, although some parts of his philosophy make me think that that isn't entirely true.

Nietzsche describes Twilight of the Idols as an exploration through the idleness of a psychologist, and a declaration of war against the idols, for they were described by him as being "The most hollow of all beings in which people have the most faith" These essays are divided into the Maxims and Arrows, the problem of Socrates, "Reason" in philosophy, How the "True World" finally Became a Fable, Morality as Anti-Nature, The Four Great Errors, The "Improvers" of Mankind, What the German's lack, Skirmishes of an Untimely Man, What I Owe to the Ancients, and The Hammer Speaks. (Pg.465 Twilight of the Idols)

Maxims and Arrows is the first part of Nietzsche's Twilight of the Idols and probably the most telling. It is written in the form of a list like "Nietzsche's guide to Life" and goes through his basic philosophy shedding light on ever part of his pers

24) He who laughs best today will also laugh last.( Pgs. 467-470) Twilight of the Idols

3) The Error of Imaginary Causes. In this essay Nietzsche attacks the desire of human beings to have reason or explanation for their feelings. He sees no reason as to why we should seek a motive for our actions, and claims that when we attempt to explain our feelings we furnish some kind of motivation and come up with casual interpretations and not the real causes, which thus inhibits any investigation into the true cause of our behavior. This, explains Nietzsche, comes from a desire to derive something unknown from something familiar in order to feel, because any explanation is better than none, therefore we search for an explanation to serve as a cause. He disagrees with this because he feels that "in truth all these supposed explanations are translations of pleasurable or unpleasurable feelings into a false dialect."

2) The error of false Causality. This is the error of human being believing that we are causal in the act of willing and believing is the conception of a consciousness as a cause or an ego. Nietzsche explains that these motives we create are merely a surface of consciousness alongside the action that do not really serve to represent or excuse the actions, and the ego is doesn't even exist, there are no mental causes at all. He states that it was an error on behalf of the human race that we created the world on a basis of a world of causes and it was out of him that man created the three "inner facts" of the will, the spirit, and the ego.

16) "Evil men have no songs" then why do the Russians sing?

4) R. J. Holingdale, Nietzsche Boston Mass. 1973 Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd.

15) One may not have any sham virtues. One either stands, falls, or runs away

In this section of "Twilight of the Idols" Nietzsche discusses his feelings on morals and how unfairly they are imposed on the masses by the church and other religions. He also shares his opinions on race and in its relation with morality and religion.

4) Any distinction between the real and apparent world is only a sign of our declining life, and appearance is only a residue of experience. (Pgs. 479-485 Twilight of the Idols)

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