The one reaction Nietzsche cannot tolerate is indifference, and this is what his use of hyperbole is designed to eliminate. - Alexander Nehamas

To study the art of living is to engage in one of its forms.

According to Heidegger, the blind desire for manipulation [of nature] came about because modernity turned reason—which was, for the ancients, and even for the medievals, a source of valuable goals—into a purely instrumental faculty.

All we are now concerned with is the search for “new and improved” version of whatever means are already available for attaining goals such means make possible. The value of the goals themselves is irrelevant … What counts is doing things better than before. Whether such things are worth doing in the first place is no longer a question.