Human, All-Too-Human: A Book for Free Spirits, Part 2
Human, All-Too-Human: A Book for Free Spirits, Part 2
Translated by Paul V. (Paul Victor) Cohn
This is Nietzsche shedding his romantic skin. Written in 1879-1880, Part Two of Human, All-Too-Human marks the moment the philosopher becomes the sharp, dangerous voice we recognize: skeptical, ironic, unafraid of disillusionment. Nearly 1400 aphorisms, each a small detonation against comfortable certainties about morality, knowledge, and human nature. Nietzsche abandons the metaphysical dreams of his earlier work, embracing what he calls 'positivism' - a clear-eyed reckoning with what can actually be known. The prose crackles with brio. There is no system here, no grand architecture, only fragments that pierce and provoke. It is a book for those willing to think uncomfortably, to question the very foundations they stand on. If you came to Nietzsche for the provocations of Zarathustra or Beyond Good and Evil, this is where they germinate - in the soil of honest doubt and psychological bravery.
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“There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.””
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
“Stupidity in a woman is unfeminine.””
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
“He who cannot put his thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of dispute.””
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
“Marriage as a long conversation. - When marrying you should ask yourself this question: do you believe you are going to enjoy talking with this woman into your old age? Everything else in a marriage is transitory, but most of the time that you're together will be devoted to conversation.””
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
“And so, onwards... along a path of wisdom, with a hearty tread, a hearty confidence.. however you may be, be your own source of experience. Throw off your discontent about your nature. Forgive yourself your own self. You have it in your power to merge everything you have lived through- false starts, errors, delusions, passions, your loves and your hopes- into your goal, with nothing left over.””
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
“Most people are far too much occupied with themselves to be malicious.””
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
“There is a certain right by which we many deprive a man of life, but none by which we may deprive him of death; this is mere cruelty.””
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
“In reality, hope is the worst of all evils, because it prolongs man’s torments.””
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
“At a certain place in Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, for example, he might feel that he is floating above the earth in a starry dome, with the dream of immortality in his heart; all the stars seem to glimmer around him, and the earth seems to sink ever deeper downwards.””
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
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