THOUGHTS
OUT OF SEASON, VOL.
Nietzsche - v16 - Twilight of the Idols
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1. Dissatisfaction with ourselves. An antidote
to repentance. The transformation of temperament
(e. g. , by means of inorganic substances). Good will
to this dissatisfaction. We should wait for our
thirst and let it become great in order to discover
its source.
2. Death must be transformed into a means of
victory and triumph.
3. The attitude towards disease. Freedom where
death is concerned.
4. The love of the sexes is a means to an ideal
(it is the striving of a being to perish through his
opposite). The love for a suffering deity.
5. Procreation is the holiest of all things. Preg-
nancy,
the creation of a woman and a man, who
wish to enjoy their unity, and erect a monument to
it by means of a child.
6. Pity as a danger. Circumstances must be
created which enable everyone to be able to help
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himself, and which leave him to choose whether he
would be helped.
7. Education must be directed at making men
evil, at developing their inner devil.
8. Inner war as “ development. "
9. “The maintenance of the species," and the
thought of eternal recurrence.
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Principal doctrine. We must strive to make
every stage one of perfection, and rejoice therein,-
we must make no leaps !
In the first place, the promulgation of laws.
After the Superman the doctrine of eternal re-
currence will strike us with horror: Now it is
endurable.
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Life itself created this thought which is the most
oppressive for life. Life wishes to get beyond its
greatest obstacle!
We must desire to perish in order to arise afresh,
—from one day to the other. Wander through a
hundred souls,—let that be thy life and thy fate!
And then finally: desire to go through the whole
process once more!
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The highest thing of all would be for us to be
able to endure our immortality.
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The moment in which I begot recurrence is im-
mortal, for the sake of that moment alone I will
endure recurrence.
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The teaching of eternal recurrence — it is at first
oppressive to the more noble souls and apparently
a means of weeding them out,—then the inferior
and less sensitive natures would remain over! “This
doctrine must be suppressed and Zarathustra killed. ”
64
The hesitation of the disciples. “We are already
able to bear with this doctrine, but we should destroy
the many by means of it! ”
Zarathustra laughs : “Ye shall be the hammer : I
laid this hammer in your hands. ”
65
I do not speak to you as I speak to the people.
The highest thing for them would be to despise
and to annihilate themselves: the next highest thing
would be for them to despise and annihilate each
other.
66
“My will to do good compels me to remain silent.
But my will to the Superman bids me speak and
sacrifice even my friends. ”
”
"I would fain form and transform you, how could
I endure things otherwise ! ”
67
The history of higher man. The rearing of the
better man is incalculably more painful. The ideal
of the necessary sacrifice which it involves, as in the
case of Zarathustra, should be demonstrated: A
man should leave his home, his family and his native
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land. Liveunder thescorn of the prevailing morality.
The anguish of experiments and errors. The solu-
tion of all the joys offered by the older ideals (they
are now felt to be partly hostile and partly strange).
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What is it which gives a meaning, a value, an
importance to things? It is the creative heart
which yearns and which created out of this yearning.
It created joy and woe.
It wanted to sate itself
also with woe. Every kind of pain that man or
beast has suffered, we must take upon ourselves and
bless, and have a goal whereby such suffering would
acquire some meaning.
69
Principal doctrine: the transfiguration of pain into
a blessing, and of poison into food, lies in our power.
The will to suffering.
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Concerning heroic greatness as the only state of
pioneers. (A yearning for utter ruin as a means of
enduring one's existence. )
We must not desire one state only; we must rather
desire to be periodical creatures—like existence.
Absolute indifference to other people's opinions
(because we know their weights and measures),
but their opinions of themselves should be the
subject of pity.
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Disciples must unite three qualities in themselves :
they must be true, they must be able and willing to
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be communicative, they must have profound insight
into each other.
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All kinds of higher men and their oppression and
blighting (as a case in point, Dühring, who was ruined
by isolation)—on the whole, this is the fate of
higher men to-day, they seem to be a species that
is condemned to die out: this fact seems to come to
Zarathustra's ears like a great cry for help. All
kinds of insane degenerations of higher natures
seem to approach him (nihilism for instance).
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Higher Men who come to Zarathustra in Despair.
Temptations to return prematurely to the world-
thanks to the provocation of one's sympathies.
1. The rolling stone, the homeless one, the
wanderer:—he who has unlearned the love of his
people because he has learned to love many peoples,
-the good European.
2. The gloomy, ambitious son of the people, shy,
lonely, and ready for anything,—who chooses rather
to be alone than to be a destroyer,—he offers him-
self as an instrument.
3. The ugliest man, who is obliged to adorn him-
self (historical sense) and who is always in search of
a new garment: he desires to make his appearance
becoming, and finally retires into solitude in order
not to be seen, he is ashamed of himself.
4. He who honours facts (“the brain of a leech”),
the most subtle intellectual conscience, and because
he has it in excess, a guilty conscience, he wants
to get rid of himself.
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5. The poet, who at bottom thirsts for savage
freedom,-he chooses loneliness and the severity of
knowledge.
6. The discoverer of new intoxicants, the
musician, the sorcerer, who finally drops on his
knees before a loving heart and says: “Not to me
do I wish to lead you but yonder to him. ”
Those who are sober to excess and who have a
yearning for intoxication which they do not gratify.
The Supersobersides.
7. Genius (as an attack of insanity), becoming
frozen through lack of love: “I am neither a genius
nor a god. ” Great tenderness: "people must show
him more love! ”
8. The rich man who has given everything away
and who asks everybody: “Have you anything you
do not want? give me some of it! " as a beggar.
9. The Kings who renounce dominion: “we
seek him who is more worthy to rule”—against
equality”: the great man is lacking, consequently
reverence is lacking too.
10. The actor of happiness.
II. The pessimistic soothsayer who detects
fatigue everywhere.
12. The fool of the big city.
13. The youth from the mount.
14. The woman (seeks the man).
15. The envious emaciated toiler and arriviste.
16. The good,
and their mad fancy:
17. The pious,
For God,” that
18. The self-centred and
means “For me. '
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“I gave you the most weighty thought: maybe
mankind will perish through it, perhaps also man-
kind will be elevated through it inasmuch as by
its means the elements which are hostile to life
will be overcome and eliminated. “Ye must not
chide Life, but yourselves ! ”—The destiny of higher
man is to be a creator. The organisation of higher
men, the education of the future ruler. “YE must
rejoice in your superior power when ye rule and
when ye form anew. " “Not only man but Super-
man will recur eternally! ”
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The typical suffering of the reformer and also
his consolations. The seven solitudes.
He lives as though he were beyond all ages : his
loftiness allows him to have intercourse with the
anchorites and the misunderstood of every age.
Only his beauty is his defence. He lays his
hands on the next thousand years.
His love increases as he sees the impossibility of
avoiding the affliction of pain with it.
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Zarathustra's mood is not one of mad impatience
for Superman! It is peaceful, it can wait: but all
action has derived some purpose from being the road
and means thither,—and must be done well and
perfectly.
The repose of the great stream! Consecration of
the smallest thing. All unrest, and violent longing,
all loathing should be presented in the third part
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and be overcome! The gentleness, and mildness,
&c. , in the first and second parts are both signs of a
power which is not yet self-reliant!
With the recovery of Zarathustra, Cæsar stands
there inexorable and kind :-the gulf separating
creation, goodncss, and wisdom is annihilated.
Clearness, peace, no exaggerated craving, happi-
ness in the moment which is properly occupied and
immortalised!
77
Zarathustra, Part III. : “I myself am happy. ”-
When he had taken leave of mankind he returned
unto himself. Like a cloud it vanishes from him.
The manner in which Superman must live: like an
Epicurean God.
Divine suffering is the substance of the third part
of Zarathustra. The human state of the legislator
is only brought forward as an example.
His intense love for his friends seems to him a
disease, once more he becomes peaceful.
When the invitations come he gently evades them.
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In the fourth part it is necessary to say precisely
why it is that the time of the great noon has come:
It is really a description of the age given by means
of visits, but interpreted by Zarathustra.
In the fourth part it is necessary to say precisely
why “a chosen people” has first to be created :-
they are the lucky cases of nature as opposed to the
unlucky (exemplified by the visitors): only to them
—the lucky cases—is Zarathustra able to express
himself concerning ultimate problems, them alone
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is he able to inspire with activity on behalf of this
theory. They are strong, healthy, hard and above
all noble enough for him to give them the hammer
with which to remould the whole world.
79
The unity in power of the creator, the lover and
the knight of knowledge.
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Love alone shall judge—(the creative love which
forgets itself in its work).
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Zarathustra can only dispense happiness once the
order of rank is established. Therefore this doctrine
must be taught first.
The order of rank develops into a system of
earthly dominion : the lords of the earth come last,
a new ruling caste. Here and there there arises
from them a perfectly Epicurean God, a Superman,
a transfigurer of existence.
The Superhuman's notion of the world. Dionysus.
Returning from these most strange of all pursuits
Zarathustra comes back with love to the narrowest
and smallest things,—he blesses all his experiences
and dies with a blessing on his lips.
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From people who merely pray we must become
people who bless.
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THE RENAISSANCE
BY COUNT ARTHUR DE GOBINEAU
With 20 Illustrations
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THESE five historical dramas cover the flowering-time of
the Italian Renaissance from the rise to prominence of
Savonarola (1492) to the last days of Michael Angelo (about
1560). While grouped round the leading figures who provide
the titles-Savonarola, Cesare Borgia, Julius II. , Leo X. , and
Michael Angelo—the plays introduce almost every interesting
character of the period. Nor are we only concerned with
the great names : the author aims at catching the spirit of
the people, and the thoughts and feelings of soldier, artisan,
trader, and their womenfolk find ample voice in his pages.
The Italian Renaissance is an epoch of peculiar interest
to English readers, not least because of its profound in-
fluence on our own Elizabethan age. It is perhaps the
most many-sided period in history : even fifth-century Greece
scarcely contributed so much-or at any rate so much that
has survived to the world of politics, art, and thought.
Now while this interest is amply reflected in contemporary
literature, from the monumental work of Symonds down to
the flotsam and jetsam of everyday fiction, there is one kind
of man who more than an historian would show insight into
this age, and that is a poet.
It is as a poet's work that Gobineau's “ Historical Scenes”
recommend themselves to the public. But there are many
kinds of poets : there is the religious and moral kind, there
is the irreligious and sub-moral kind, and there is the super-
religious and super-moral kind. Only the last-named can
understand, can feel, can sympathise with such mighty
figures as Cesare Borgia and Julius II. - the religious
poet being inclined to paint them as monsters, the sub-
religious as freaks and neurotics. Similia similibus : equals
can only be recognised by their equals, and Gobineau was
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THE RENAISSANCE-continued
himself a type of the Renaissance flung by destiny into an age
of low bourgeois and socialist ideals. In a century swayed
by romanticism and democracy, Gobineau was a classic and
an aristocrat. He is a forerunner of Nietzsche ("the only
European spirit I should care to converse with," said
Nietzsche of him in a letter), and as such is peculiarly fitted
to deal with one of the few periods that was not dominated
by the moral law. For this reason Gobineau cannot fail to
attract the large and ever-growing circle of students of
Nietzsche in this country and America.
