8/26 Some Nietszche for the day:
"In our youthful years we respect and despise without that art of
nuance which constitutes the best thing we gain from life, and, as
is only fair, we have to pay dearly for having assailed men, and things
which Yes and No in such a fashion. Everything is so regulated that the
worst of all tastes, the taste for the unconditional, is cruelly
misused and made a fool of until a man learns to introduce a little
art into his feelings and even to venture trying the artificial: as
genuine artists do. The anger and reverence characteristic of youth
seem to allow themselves no peace until they have falsified men and
things in such a way that they can vent themselves on them --- youth
as such is something that falsifies and deceives. Later, when the
youthful soul, tormented by disappointments, finally turns suspiciously
on itself, still hot and savage even in its suspicion and pangs of
conscience: how angry it is with itself now, how it impatiently rends
itself, how it takes revenge for its long self-delusion, as if it had
blinded itself deliberately! During this transition one punishes
oneself by distrusting one's feelings; one tortures one's enthusiasm
with doubts, indeed one feels that even a good conscience is a danger,
as though a good conscience were a screening of oneself and a sign
that one's subtler honesty had grown weary; and above all one takes
sides, takes sides on principle, against 'youth'. --- A decade
later: and one grasps that all this too --- was still youth!"
(Beyond Good and Evil, 31)
\_ "I'm a politician. My job is not to nuance." --GWB
\_ URLP.
\_ It's not a direct quote. I'd post a link but it's all Ann
Coulter and the UCB republicans explaining how the quote is
actually a good thing.
\_ Oh great, a pagan fag.
\_ Are his writings online anywhere in a semi-comprehensive format?
\_ So, pretty much he's saying young people aren't old enough to
understand that the world isn't black and white and this leads to
poor decisions and some people never get it. Thanks for burning
an entire packet telling us the obvious. Deep.
\_ blah blah blah. |
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