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The hsrcal sense he capacy dne qckly he rder f rank f
he alans by whch a peple a scey a man les - he relanshpf hese alans he cndns f lfe he relan beween he
ahry f he ales and he ahry f he frces ha are a wrk (he
presmed relan sally een mre han he acal ne) beng able
rproduc all hs whn neself cnses he hsrcal sense.
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raly s he dcrne f he rder f men's rank and cnseqenly als
f he sgncance f her acns and wrksfor hs rder f rank hshe dcrne f hman alans n respec f eeryhng hman. Ms
mral phlsphers nly presen he rder f rank ha rles now n hene hand lack f hsrcal sense n he her hey are hemseles rled
by he mraly whch eaches ha wha s a presen s eernally ald
The ncndnal mprance he blnd selfcenedness wh whcheer mraly reas self wans here n be many mrales wans
n cmparsn and n crcsm b raher ncndnal belef n sel
s hs n s ery essence anscenc - and fr ha reasn alneh perfec mrals wld hae be mmora, beynd gd and el. B s scence hen sll possb? Wha s he search fr rh rhflnss hnesy f n smehng mral? And wh hese alans
and he crrespndng acns hw wld scence be pssble? Take he
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conscentosness ot of knowedge and what remans of scence?7 Is
sceptcsm n moraty not a contradcton nsofar as t s precsey here
that the hghest renement of mora expectatons s at work: as soon as
the sceptc ceases to consder these ner eaatons of the tre to be
athortate he no onger has reason to dobt and to stdy unless the willto knowledge were to have quite another root than truthfulness -
Regardng the pan. Introduction
I . the organc fnctons transated back nto the fndamenta w the
w to power and as hang spt off from t.
2. thnkng feeng wng n eerythng that es what s a peasre other than a stmaton of the feeng of power
by an obstace (more strongy st by rhythmca obstaces and ress
tances) eadng t to swe? Ths eery peasre ncdes pan. -
If the peasre s to become ery great the pan mst be ery ong and
the tenson of the drawn bow prodgos.
3 the w to power specasng as w to norshment to property to
tools to serants -
obeyng and masterng the body.- the stronger w drects the weaker There s no other casaty
whatsoeer than that of w on w . So far there has been no mecha
nstc - - -
4. the nteecta fnctons W to shape to assmate etc
Annex The phosophers great msnderstandngs.
Man n whateer staton he may nd hmsef needs a knd of aaton
by means of whch he jstes .e seglores, hs actons ntentons andstates towards hmsef and especay towards hs srrondngs. Eery
natra moraty s the expresson of one knd of mans satsfacton wth
hmsef and f one needs prase one aso needs a corresponding tabe ofaes accordng the hghest esteem to those actons of whch we are most
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apabe in whih r rea strength expresses itse Where we are strngestis where we wish t be seen and hnred
One mst free nesef frm the qestin What is gd? What is m
passinate? and as instead What is the gd man the mpassinateman?
S[
Up to now a moraity has been above a the expression of a conservative wito breed the same species with the imperatie A ariatin is t be pre
ented ny the enjyment f the speies mst remain . Here a nmber fprperties are ng hed fast t and cutivaed whie thers are sarieda sh mraities are harsh (in edatin in the hie f wies generay against the rights f the yng et.) and the rest is men whse
harateristis are few bt ery strng and aways the same. These har
ateristis are reated t the bases pn whih sh mmnweaths an
hd their wn and assert themsees against their enemies.
A at ne the bnds and fetters f sh breeding apse ( fr a time
there are n enemies eft) The indiida nw as sh restraints and
grws wid there is immense rin angside magnient mtifarisjngeie pwards grwth Fr the new men wh nw inherit the mostdiverse things the need arises t mae themsees an individua egisationne apprpriate t their peiar nditins and dangers The mraphisphers appear wh are say representaties f sme mre m
mn type and with their disipine sef t a partiar ind f man
I . is the phispher sti possibe tday? s nt the extent f what isnwn t arge? s it nt ery niey that he wi be abe t reah an
overview the ess s the mre nsientis he is? Or ny too ate whenhis best days are er? Or damaged arsened degenerated s that hisvaue judgement n nger nts? - Otherwise he bemes a diettante'with a thsand itte snaiie feeers sing that great paths4 respet
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fr hmsef and hs gd rened nsene In shr: he n nger
eads he n nger mmands If he waned d s he wd hae
beme a grea ar a knd f phspha Cagliosto
2. wha des mean s day li phsphay be se Is n ams a way f etricating nesef eery frm an gy game Aknd f gh? And smene wh es n ha reme and smpe ay:
s key ha hs has e hm shw hs ndersandng he bs ay
frward? Ogh he n hae red fe persnay n a hndredways s as hae smehng sa ab s ae? In shr: \e bee
ha a man ms hae ed absey nphsphay ardng
he reeed deas abe a n hae ed n md rsness n
rder reah jdgemens n he grea prbems frm hs wn epeence
The man wh he wdes experene mpressng n genera nsns: gh he n be he ms pwerf? - The wse man has
ng been nfsed wh he shar and een nger h he regs
enhsas
I gh agans a he hyprsy f sen adeI regardng epositon, f desn rrespnd he geness f
hgs
2 n he ms methods whh a a parar mmen n sene mayn ye en be pssbe
3. n he ams objectivity, d mpersnay where as n a aans we e smehng ab rsees and r nner experenes
n a few wrds. There are rds knds f any eg ha f
SanBee50 wh neer erame hs exan a hang had here
and here rea warmh and passn n hs Fr and Agans and d
hae ked e f hs fe.
Wha separaes me ms deepy frm he meaphysans s I dn n
ede ha he s wha hnks Insead I ake he I itseo be a constuction
thinking f he same rank as maer hng sbsane ndda
49 Cnt landro d agor (atuall Gie Balam) wa an alhm and osr " hodd in prison in 1795 .
50 CharesAgutin SaintBve (18°4-69), French l erary htran and riti
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prpe' nmber' in ther wrd t be ny a gutv ction withthe hep f which a kind f cntancy and th knwabiity' i inerted
int ntd nto, a wrd f becming. Up t nw beief in grammar inthe lingitic bject bject in erb ha bjgated the metaphyician
I teach the rennciatin f thi beie It i ny thinking that pit theI: bt p t nw phipher hae beieed like the cmmn peple'
that in / think' there ay mething r ther f nmediated certainty and
that thi I' wa the gien cae f thinking in anagy with which we
ndertd' al ther caa reatin Hweer hbitated and indi
penable thi ctin may nw be that in n way dipre it haing been
inented mething can be a cnditin f ife and nvthss bf
In a wrld fbecming in which eerything i cnditina the amptin
f the ncnditina f btance f being f a thing etc can nly be
errr Bt hw i errr pibe?
Shwing the ccein f thing eer mre ceary i what' named
pntion: n mre than that
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Timee' t be rejected At a particlar mment f a frce an abte
cnditinality f the reditribtin f al it frce i gien i t cannt tand
ti Change' i part f the eence and therefre i tempraity -
which hweer jt amnt t ne mre cnceptal piting f the
neceity f change.
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NB. The msu f a man i hw mch f the tuth he can endre witht dgnting. Likewie hw mch hppinss ikewie hw mch"dom and po
On the rder f rank
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Neer has more been demanded of ng creatres than when dry and
emerged. Habtated and adapted to fe n the sea they had to trn
arond and oertrn ther bodes and cstoms and act n eery respect
dfferenty from what they had been sed to before there has neer been
a more remarkabe change on earth. Jst as then throgh coapses
throgh the earth sowy breakng apart the sea sank nto the rptres
caes and troghs and ganed depth so (to contne the metaphor) what shappenng today among men perhaps offers the exact conterpart mans
becomng whoe and ronded a dsappearance of the rptres caes and
troghs and conseqenty aso a dsappearance of dry and. For a man
made ronded and whoe by my way of thnkng eerythng s at sea'
the sea s eerywhere howeer the sea tsef has ost depth t I was
on my way to qte another metaphor and took the wrong trnng I was
tryng to say that I, ke eeryone was born a creatre of the and and
yet now I have to be a creatre of the sea!
M ompassion '. - Ths s a feeng for whch no name satses me Iexperence t when I see a waste of precos capactes for exampe at the
sght of ther - what force and what nspd pronca probems (at a
tme when n France the bod and cheerf sceptcsm ofa Montagne had
aready become possbe!). Or when I see a man fang behnd what he
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cd hae becme de t sme stpid chance. Or wrse when thinking
abt mankind's t - as when with fear and cntempt, I happen t
bsere the Erpean pitics f tday which is certainy as heping t
weae the fabric f a mankind's ftre. Yes what might man' becme
if --! This is my kind f cmpassin' een if there's n ne sfferingwhse sffering I wd shareY
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Hw ng hae I been cncerned in my wn mind t pre the perfect
innoene f becming And what strange paths I'e taken in this qest Atne pint it seemed t me the right stin t decree that existence, as
smething ike a wrk fart, des nt fa nder the jrisdictin fmraityat a instead mraity itsef bengs t the ream fappearance' Anther
time I said Objectiey, a ntins f git are entirey witht ae
bt sbjectiely a ife is necessariy njst and agica' Then again, I
wrested frm mysef the denia f a prpses and fet the nknwabiity
f casa cnnectins. And what was this a fr? Was it nt t gie mysef
a feeing f cmpete irrespnsibiity - t pace mysef tside al praise
and blame independent f a past and present in rder t rn after my
wn gal in my wn way? -
If the wrd had a ga it cd nt fai t hae been reached by nw. If it
had an nintended na state this t cd nt fail t hae been reached
If it were capable at a f standing sti and remaining frzen, f being'
if fr jst ne secnd in al its becming it had this capacity fr being'
then in trn al becming wd ng since be er and dne with and
s wld al thinking a mind' The fact f mind' as a beoming presthat the wrd has n ga and n na state and is incapabe f being
Bt the d habit f thinking abt a eents in terms f gas, and abt
the wrd in terms f a giding creating Gd, is s pwerf that the
thinker is hardpressed nt t think f the gaessness f the wrd as,
again an intentin This idea the idea that the wrd is intentinay
Th Grn word Mled coion, it i coosd ofmt (with) + lede (o uRr
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evading a ga and even has the means expressy t prevent itsef frmbeing drawn int a cycica curse - is what ccurs t a thse wh wud
ike t impse upn the wrd the facuty fr eterna noety that is,impse upn a nite, determinate frce f unchanging magnitude ike
the wrd' the miracuus capacity t refashin its shapes and states
innitey They wud ike the wrd, if n nger Gd, t be capabe fdivine creative frce, an innite frce f transfrmatin; they wud ike
the wrd t prevent itse at wi frm faing back int ne f its eariershapes, t pssess nt ny the intentin but as the means f gardingitsef frm a repetitin. The wrd is, thus, t contro every ne f itsmvements at every mment s as t avid gas, na states, repetitns
and whatever ese the cnsequences f such an unfrgivaby crazy way
f thinking and wishing may be This is sti the d reigius way fthinking and wishing, a kind fnging t beieve that in some ay or otherthe wrd des, after a, resembe the beved d, innite, bundessy
creative Gd - that in sme way r ther the d Gd sti ives' - that
nging f Spinza's expressed in the wrds deus sive natura'52 (he evenfet natura sive deus'). But what, then, is the prpsitin and beief whichmst distincty frmuates that critica turn, the present ascendancy fthe scientic spirit ver the reigius, gdinventing spirit? Is it nt the
wrd, as frce, must nt be cnceived f as unimited, fr it nt be
cnceived f that way - we frbid urseves the cncept f an initefrce, as beng incompatibe ith the concept of orce Thus - the wrdas acks the capacity fr eterna nvety.
I take gd care nt t tak f chemica as' that has a mra aftertasteIt is rather a matter f the absute estabishment f pwer reatins the
strnger becmes master fthe weaker t the extent that the weakr cannt
assert its dgree f autnmy - here there is n mercy, n frbearance,even ess a respect fr aws'!
It is unikey that ur knwing' wud g any further than what's just
necessary fr the preservatin f ife Mrphgy shws us hw the
Go hat , atur'
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senses and neres as the brain deep in prprtin t the difct
f nding fd
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In the realm f the inrganic t fr an atm f frce n its direct
prximit cnts frces at a distance cance ne anther t Here we nd
the cre f perspectiism and the reasn wh a iing being is egistic
thrgh and thrgh
The weaer pshes its wa t the strnger t f a ac f fd it wants
t tae sheter if pssible t becme one with it. Cnerse the strngerreplses the weaer it desnt want t perish this wa instead as it grws
it spits int tw and mre The greater the rge t nit the mre ne
ma infer weaness the mre there is an rge t ariet differentiatin
inner fragmentatin the mre frce is present
The drie t cme clser and the drie t replse smething in bth
the inrganic and the rganic wrd these are what binds The whe
distinctin is a prejdice.
The wi t pwer in eer cmbinatin f frces resisting what sstronger attcking what s weaker is more correct NB. Processes as beings
6[]
The cnnectin f the inrganic and the rganic mst lie in the frce f
replsin which eer atm f frce exerts ife shd be dened as an
endring frm f theprocess ftestingrce, where the different cmbatantsgrw nea In hw far being as ines resisting the beer b
n means gies p its wn pwer iewise in cmmanding there is acncessin that the ppnents abste pwer has nt been anished
nt incrprated dissed Obeing and cmmanding are frms f
martial art
The cntinal transitins d nt permit s t spea f the indiidal
etc the nmber f beings is itsef in x. Ve wdnt spea f time at
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all and would know nothing of motion if we didn't, in a crude way, believewe saw something at rest' alongside things in motion. Just as little wouldwe speak of cause and effect, and without the erroneous conception ofthe empty space' we would never have arrived at the conception of spaceitself. The principle of identity has as its background the appearance' thatthings are the same. A world of becoming could not, in the strict sense,be grasped', be known' only inasmuch as the grasping' and knowing'intellect nds an already created, crude world, cobbled together out ofdeceptions but having become solid, inasmuch as this kind of illusion has
preserved life only to that extent is there such a thing as knowledge':i.e. , a measuring of earlier and more recent errors against one another
Philosophy in the only way I still allow it to stand, as the most general form
of history, as an attempt somehow to describe Heraclitean53 becoming andto abbreviate it into signs (so to speak, to translate and mummify it into a
kind of illusory beng4)
It is unfair to Descartes to call his appeal to God's credibility frivolous.Indeed, only ifwe assume a God who is morally our like can truth' and thesearch for truth be at all something meaningful and promising of success.This God left aside, the question is permitted whether being deceived isnot one of the conditions of life.
The triumphant concept offorce', with which our physicists have created
God and the world, needs supplementing: it must be ascribed an innerworld which I call will to power', i.e, an insatiable craving to manifestpower; or to employ, exercise power, as a creative drive, etc The physicistscannot eliminate action at a distance' from their principles, nor a force ofrepulsion (or attraction). There is no help for it: one must understand allmotion, all appearances' , all laws' as mere symptoms of inner events, and
3 Heracl, a Gree phloophe lng arond 00 Be, hed ha evhng move5 'being ': alc added
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use the human analogy consistently to the end n the case of an animal, al lits drives can be traced back to the will to power likewise all the functionsof organic life to this one source.
Aong the guiding thread of the body -Supposing that the sou' was an attractive and mysterious idea which
philosophers, rightly, gave up only with reluctance perhaps what theyrenow learning to exchange for it is even more attractive, even more mysterious. The human body, in which the whole most distant and most recentpast of all organic becoming regains life and corporeality, through which,over which, beyond which a tremendous, inaudible river seems to owthe body is a more astonishing idea than the old soul .
n every era people have believed better in the body as our most certainbeing, in short as our ego, than in the mind (or the soul -or the subject, asthe language of schoolmen now prefers to term it). t has never occurred toanyone to think of his stomach as an alien stomach, perhaps a divine one;
but as for regarding his thoughts as inspired, his valuations as promptedby a God, his instincts as mysterious activity for this tendency and tasteof man there are testimonies from all the ages of mankind. ven today,particularly among artists, one often enough nds a kind of wonder anddeferential unhooking of judgement when the question arises of how they
succeeded in making the best throw and from what world the creativethought came to them When they ask themselves this kind of thing,theres something of innocence and childlike bashfulness about them;they hardly dare to say That came from me, it was my hand that cast
the die. - Conversely, even those philosophers and religious men whoselogic and piety gave them the most pressing grounds to view their bodilyside as a deception, and a deception overcome and put away even theycouldnt avoid acknowledging the stupid reality that the body has not ed.On this matter we nd the strangest testimonies, partly in Paul, partly inVedanta5 philosophy
Th philosophy basd on h Upanishads which a laboaions on h mo ancin I Iindsacrd es, h Vdas
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But in the end what does strength of belief signify! It coud still b avery stupid beief - Here one must reect:
And in the end if beief in the body is only the result of an inferen
supposing it were a false inference as the ideaists caim: is not the crebiity of the mind itsef cast into doubt by its being the cause of sfalse inferences? Supposing multipicity and space and time and mo(and whatever ese may be the presuppositions of a belief in corporeai� were errors what mistrust of the mind would be aroused by the thing tinduced us to reach such suppositions! nough: for the time being bein the body is still a stronger belief than beief in the mind and anowho wants to undermine it wi most thoroughy be undermining beli
in the authority of the mind as well !
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- e d i illcosidered ha precisel huma cosciousess has forso log bee regarded as he highes sage of orgaic developme adas h mos asoishig of all earhl higs, ided as heir blossomig
ad goal fac, wha is more asoishig is he body: her is o ed ooes admiraio for how he huma bod has become possible; how sucha prodigious alliace oflivig beigs, each depede ad subservie ade i a cerai sese also commadig ad acig ou of is ow will, cali, grow, ad for a while prevail, as a whole - ad we ca see his doesnot occur due o cosciousess! For his miracle of miracles, cosciousess is us a ool ad ohig more a ool i he same sese ha hesomach is a ool The magice bidig ogeher of he mos diverse
life, he orderig ad arrageme of he higher ad lower aciviies, hehousadfold obdiece which is o blid, eve less mechaical, bu a
selecig shrewd, cosiderae, eve resisa obediece measured biellecual sadards, his whole pheomeo bod is as superior oour cosciousess, our mid, our coscious hikig, feelig, wil lig, asalgebra is superior o he imes ables. The apparaus of erves ad braiis o cosruced his subl ad diviel so as o brig forh hikig,felig, illig a all seems o me, isead, ha precisel his hikig,feelig, willig does o iself require a apparaus bu ha he socalledapparaus, ad i aloe, is he hig ha cous Raher, such a prodigious
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sythesis of livig beigs ad itellects as is called ma will oly be ableto live oce that subtle system of coectios ad mediatios ad thuslightigfast commuicatio betwee all these higher ad lower beigshas bee created ad created by othig but livig itermediaries: this
however is a problem of morality ot of mechaics! Nowadays weveforbidde ourselves to spi yars about uity the soul the perso:hypotheses like these make oes problemmor dcut that much is clear.Ad for us eve those smallest livig beigs which costitute our body(more correctly: for whose iteractio the thig we call body is the bestsimile -) are ot soulatoms but rather somethig growig struggligreproducig ad dyig off agai: so that their umber alters usteadilyad our livig like all livig is at oce a icessat dyig. There are thus
i ma as may cosciousesses as at every momet of his existece there are beigs which costitute his body The distiguishig featureof that cosciousess usually held to be the oly oe the itellect isprecisely that it remais protected ad closed off from the immeasurablemultiplicity i the experieces of these may cosciousesses ad that asa cosciousess of a higher rak as a goverig multitude ad aristocracyit is preseted oly with a sction of experieces experieces furthermore that have all bee simplied made easy to survey ad grasp thusfasd - so that it i tur may carry o this simplicatio ad makiggraspable i other words this falsicatio ad prepare what is commolycalled a will -every such act of will requires so to speak the appoitmetof a dictator. However what presets this selectio to our itellect whathas simpli ed assimilated iterpreted experieces beforehad is at ayrate ot that itellect itself; ay more tha it is the itellect which carrisout the will which takes up a pale watery ad extremely imprecise ideaof value ad force ad traslates it ito livig force precise measures ofvalue. Ad just the same kid of operatio as is eacted here must keep
beig eacted o all the deeper levels i the behaviour of all these higherad lower beigs towards oe other: this same selectio ad presetatioof experieces this abstractio ad thikigtogether this will ig thistraslatio of always very uspecic willig back ito specic activity.Alog the guidig thread of the body as I have said we lear that our lifeis possible through a iterplay of may itelligeces that are very uequali value ad thus oly through a costat thousadfold obeyig adcommadig -speakig i moral terms: through the icessat exercise ofmay virtus Ad how could oe ot speak i moral terms! - - Prattlig
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in this way, I gave myself up dissolutely to my pedagogic drive, for I wasoverjoyed to have someone who could bear to listen to me However, itwas just then that Ariadne6 - for this all took place during my rst stay onNaxos could actually bear it no more: But, sir, she said, Youre talking
pigswill German! - German I answered untroubled, Simply German!Leave aside the pigswill, my goddess! You underestimate the difculty ofsaying subtle things in German! Subtle things! cried Ariadne, horried, But that was just positivism! Philosophy of the snout! Conceptualmuck and mishmash from a hundred philosophies! Whatever next! allthe while toying impatiently with the famous thread that once guided herTheseus through the labyrinth. - Thus it came to light that Ariadne wastwo thousand years behindhand in her philosophical training.
Inexorable, hesitating, terrible as fate, the great task and question is approaching: how shall the earth as a whole be governed? Andfor what shallman as a whole - no longer just one people, one race be raised andbred?
The legislative moralities are the main means of fashioning out of men
whatever a creative and profound will desires, assuming that such an
artistic will of the highest rank holds power and can assert its creativewill over long periods of time, in the shape oflaws, religions and customs.Such men of great creativity, the really great men in my understanding,will be sought in vain today and probably for a long time to come: they
are mssng; until, after much disappointment, one nally has to begin tounderstand why it is that theyre missing and that nothing now presents,or will present for a long time to come, a more hostile obstacle to theiremergence and development than what in Europe is nowadays straight
forwardly called moraz', as if there ere and must be no other one -that morality of the herd animal, already described, which strives with allits force for a universal greenpasture happiness on earth, namely security, harmlessness, comfort, easy living, and which in the end, if all goes
5 n Gr mtholog Ariadn w th daght of Mino, Kng of rt. With a thrad h hpdTh cap th larinth and th l rt togthr. Abandond b him on th iand ofNaxo, h bcam th wi of th god Diono Ariadn wa a dp ignicant gr r thlatr tzch ( g, BE 295, I Sirmih 19 El Z 8 D Ariadn; alo t lttr toCma gnr 3 anar 1889 and to acob Brchard Janar 889)
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Wrtngsom the Late Notebook
we, also hopes to rd tself of all knds of shepherds and bellwethers Thetwo doctrnes t preaches most profusely are equal rghts and smpathywth all that suffers and t takes sufferng tself to be somethng that
absolutely must be aboshed That such deas can stll be fashonablegves one an unpleasant noton of - - However, anyone who has thoughtcarefully about where and how the human plant has htherto sprung upmost vgorously must suppose that t was under the revese condtons:that the danger of mans stuaton has to grow huge, hs powers of nventon and dssmulaton to ght ther way up through protracted pressureand coercon, hs wll to lve become ntensed nto an uncondtonal wl l
to power and overpower, and that danger, harshness, volence, danger nthe alleyway and n the heart, nequalty of rghts, secrecy, stocsm, the
arts of temptaton, devlry of all knds, n short the antthess of eerythngdesrable for the herd, are needed f the human type s to be heghtenedA moralty wth such reverse ntentons, whch wants to breed men to be
hgh not comfortable and medocre, a moralty whose ntenton s to breeda rulng caste the future masters of the earth - must, f t s to be taught,ntroduce tself by startng from the exstng moral law and shelterngunder ts words and forms That ths, however, requres many means ofdecepton and transton to be devsed, and that because the lfespan ofone man sgnes almost nothng compared to the tme needed to carry
out such lengthy tasks and ntentons, above all a ne speces must rstbe bred, n whch the same wll, the same nstnct s guaranteed to lastthrough many generatons: a new speces and caste of masters - ths s asreadly understood as the tcetera of ths thought, long and dfcult to express To prepare a reersa of vaues for a certan strong speces of menof the hghest sprtualty and strength of wll, and for ths purpose tunleash n them, slowly and cautously, many nstncts prevousl renedn and calumnated: anyone who thnks about ths s one of us, the freesprts - admttedly, a newer knd of free sprts than the ones before,
who wshed for more or less the opposte. To us belong, t seems to me,especally the uropean pessmsts, the poets and thnkers of an outragddealsm, nsofar as ther dssatsfacton wth the whole of exstence alsodrves them, at least ogca� to dssatsfacton wth presentda manlkews certan nsatably ambtous artsts who ght unscrupulously anduncondtonally for the specal rghts of hgher men and aganst te herdanmal, and who use the means of seducton offered by art to lull tosleep all herd nstncts and herd cauton among more exquste sprts
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tirdl ad all all tose critics ad istorias b whom te success
ull iitiated discoer o te world o atiquit - it is te work o teV Columbus o the Germa spirit - is courageousl continud (for weare still at the begiig o tis coquest) For certail i the world
o atiquit a dieret ad more masterul moralit ruled rom todas;ad te ma o atiquit uder te educatig spell o his moralit wasa stroger ad more prooud ma tha the ma o toda e was teol wellormed ma tere as bee. But te seductio exerted b atiquit o wellormed i. e strog ad eterprisig souls toda remaiste most subtle ad eectie of all atidemocratic ad atiChristiasedutios as it was i the das of te Reaissace
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