Sunday, March 11, 2018

 

Poor Devils

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900), Daybreak, Book III, § 177 (tr. R.J. Hollingdale):
O you poor devils in the great cities of world politics, you gifted young men tormented by ambition who consider it your duty to pass some comment on everything that happens and there is always something happening!

Oh, ihr armen Schelme in den grossen Städten der Weltpolitik, ihr jungen, begabten, vom Ehrgeiz gemarterten Männer, welche es für ihre Pflicht halten, zu allen Begebenheiten—es begiebt sich immer Etwas—ihr Wort zu sagen!



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