Monday, February 25, 2019
Model for a Different Sort of Life
Robert C. Solomon (1942-2007), Living with Nietzsche: What the Great "Immoralist" Has to Teach Us (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003), p. 4:
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Nietzsche, as I read him, is a model for a very different sort of life than is celebrated as "success" today. It is an outwardly simple and unglamorous life but a life of rich passion and ecstatic enthusiasm, expressed first of all in the privacy of one's notes and writing, a life of exquisite taste, cultivated through listening, looking, and the exercise of elegance in even the simplest things in life.
