"Schiller speaks of the understanding of the intelligent person: he does not see
some things which even the child sees; he does not hear some things which even
the child hears; these “things” are precisely the most important thing.
Because he does not understand this, his understanding is more childish than the
child and more simplistic than simple mindedness, in spite of the many shrewd
wrinkles on his parchment-like features and the virtuoso practice of his fingers
unraveling complexities. The reason is that he has destroyed and lost his
instinct. Now he can no longer let the reins hang loose, trusting the “divine
animal,” when his understanding wavers and his road leads through deserts." http://records.viu.ca/~johnstoi/nietzsche/history.htm
"...no one has a higher claim on our veneration than the man who
possesses the drive and the power for justice. For in justice are united and
hidden the highest and rarest virtues, as in a bottomless sea that receives
streams from all sides and absorbs them into itself."
"...he wants truth, not merely as
cold knowledge without consequences, but as the ordering and punishing judge,
truth not as a selfish possession of the individual but as the sacred
entitlement to shift all the boundary stones of egotistical possessions, in a
word, truth as the Last Judgment and not at all as something like the captured
trophy desired by the individual hunter."
"And thus I hope history can realize that its significance is not in
universal ideas, like some sort of blossom or fruit, but that its value comes
directly from reworking a well-known, perhaps habitual theme, a daily melody, in
a stimulating way, elevating it, intensifying it to an inclusive symbol, and
thus allowing one to make out in the original theme an entire world of
profundity, power, and beauty."
"...a religion which is to be
turned into historical knowledge under the power of pure justice, a religion
which is to be scientifically understood through and through, is by the end of
this process immediately destroyed."
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