Quotes from friedrich nietzsche the gay science 1882 1887

The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs by Friedrich Nietzsche 19, ratings, average rating, 1, reviews Open Preview. Collection of sourced quotations from The Gay Science () by Friedrich Nietzsche. Share with your friends the best quotes from The Gay Science. Nietzsche opens The Gay Science with a “Prelude In Rhyme,” a series of verses that introduce the book’s poetic voice.

Here,the second verse, titled “My Good Luck,” presents a microcosm of how this book operates. The book presents a philosopher faced with a collapse of beliefs, tossed about by the storm of philosophical investigation. The Gay Science by Friedrich Nietzsche was first published in A second edition was published in and included additional material. What is the point of the gay science?. Here is what Nietzsche said on the back of the original edition: This book marks the conclusion of a series of writ-.

ings by FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE whose common goal it is to erect a new image and ideal of the free spirit. To this series belong: Human, all too human. With Appendix: Mixed Opin-ions and Aphorisms. The Wanderer and his Shadow. In the end, lest what is most important remain unsaid: from such abysses, from such severe sickness, one returns newborn, having shed one's skin However, he was much concerned with religion and its effects, teachings, and impact on humanity, for example with:.

It is not a matter of your nerves; it is I who am nervous". Alas, it is not only on the poets and their fine "lyrical sentiments" that this reconvalescent must vent his malignity : who knows what kind of victim he seeks, what kind of monster of material for parody will allure him ere long? It seems to be written in the language of the thawing-wind : there is wantonness, restlessness, contra diction and April-weather in it; so that one is as constantly reminded of the proximity of winter as of the victory over it : the victory which is coming, which must come, which has perhaps already come.

Jacqueline Eisenbraun Senior Editor. War , Age , Heroism. Horrible experiences lead us to wonder whether the person who experiences them might not be something horrible. His mother died in the same year. When one is young, one venerates and despises without that art of nuances which constitutes the best gain of life, and it is only fair that one has to pay dearly for having assaulted men and things in this manner with Yes and No.

But illness and depression troubled him time and again and ultimately caused his downfall.

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The state lies in all languages of good and evil; and whatever it says, it lies-and whatever it has, it has stolen. Well then, my brethren, take the sublime about you, the mantle of the ugly! Categories : Publication Publication In the beginning, Nietzsche was predicted to have a steep career. Might , Wonder , Horror. In the retrospective valuation of his work which appears in "Ecce Homo" the author himself observes with truth that the fourth book, "Sanctus Januarius," deserves especial attention: "The whole book is a gift from the Saint, and the introductory verses express my gratitude for the most wonderful month of January that I have ever spent.

Men , Names , Way. After such self-questioning and self-testing, one learns to look with a sharper eye at all that has hitherto been philosophised; one divines better than before the arbitrary by-ways, side-streets, resting-places, and sunny places of thought, to which suffering thinkers, precisely as sufferers, are led and misled: one knows now in what direction the sickly body and its requirements unconsciously press, push, and allure the spirit towards the sun, stillness, gentleness, patience, medicine, refreshment in any sense whatever.

His special talent in ancient languages was already known and promising beyond the university walls. Find out what else Nietzsche thought about love in the aphorisms below. This was followed by several stays in psychiatric hospitals, where he spent the last years of his life.

The Gay Science: Preface - Aphorism 2. Behind the loftiest estimates of value by which the history of thought has hitherto been governed, misunderstandings of the bodily constitution, either of individuals, classes, or entire races are concealed. The desire for a strong faith is not the proof of a strong faith, rather the opposite. Yalom, , along with the Austrian doctor Josef Breuer and another character.

His artistic and linguistic talent was extraordinary. The Joyful Wisdom a. In this quotation of Nietzsche, his nihilistic worldview is once again clear, emphasizing transience and destruction. Above all, an art for artists, only for artists! There is probably a tremendous but invisible stellar orbit in which our very different ways and goals may be included as small parts of this path,—let us rise up to this thought!