Quotes from book
Twilight of the Idols
Twilight of the Idols, or, How to Philosophize with a Hammer is a book by Friedrich Nietzsche, written in 1888, and published in 1889.
Expeditions of an Untimely Man §5
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“Christianity is a metaphysics of the hangman…”
Das Christenthum ist eine Metaphysik des Henkers...
The Four Great Errors, Section 7
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“Liberalism: in other words, herd-animalization.”
Liberalismus: auf deutsch Heerden-Verthierung ...
Skirmishes of an Untimely Man Sect. 38
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Expeditions of an Untimely Man, §48 Progress in my sense (Streifzüge eines Unzeitgemässen §48 Fortschritt in meinem Sinne). Chapter title also translated as: Skirmishes of an Untimely Man, Kaufmann/Hollingdale translation, and Raids of an Untimely Man, Richard Polt translation
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Original: (de) Die Lehre von der Gleichheit! ... Aber es giebt gar kein giftigeres Gift: denn sie scheint von der Gerechtigkeit selbst gepredigt, während sie das Ende der Gerechtigkeit ist... "Den Gleichen Gleiches, den Ungleichen Ungleiches - das wäre die wahre Rede der Gerechtigkeit: und, was daraus folgt, Ungleiches niemals gleich machen."
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“We have already gone beyond whatever we have words for. In all talk there is a grain of contempt.”
Expeditions of an Untimely Man §26
Wofür wir Worte haben, darüber sind wir auch schon hinaus. In allem Reden liegt ein Gran Verachtung.
Variant translation: That for which we find words is something already dead in our hearts. There is always a kind of contempt in the act of speaking.'
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“Man does not strive for happiness; only the Englishman does that”
Der Mensch strebt nicht nach Glück; nur der Engländer thut das
Maxims and Arrows, 12
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Expeditions of an Untimely Man, 19
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Letter to Elisabeth Nietzsche, Bonn, 1865-06-11. Quoted in Walter Kaufmann, The Faith of a Heretic (opening epigram).
Variant: Here the ways of men divide. If you wish to strive for peace of soul and happiness, then believe; if you wish to be a disciple of truth, then inquire.
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Maxims and Arrows, 3
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“What is it: is man only a blunder of God, or God only a blunder of man?”
Wie? ist der Mensch nur ein Fehlgriff Gottes? Oder Gott nur ein Fehlgriff des Menschen?
Maxims and Arrows, 7
Variant: Which? Is man one of God's blunders or is God one of man's blunders?
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Variant: Dancing in all its forms cannot be excluded from the curriculum of all noble education; dancing with the feet, with ideas, with words, and, need I add that one must also be able to dance with the pen?
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Maxims and Arrows, 27
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“if we possess a why of life we can put up with almost any how.”
Maxims and Arrows, 12
Variant translations:
He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.
As translated in Man's Search For Meaning (1946) by Viktor Frankl
Variant: He who has a Why? in life can tolerate almost any How?
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“I mistrust all systematizers and avoid them. the will to a system is a lack of integrity.”
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