Wednesday, June 09, 2021

 

Insanity

Friedrich Nietzsche, Unpublished Fragments from the Period of Thus Spoke Zarathustra (Summer 1882-Winter 1883/84), tr. Paul S. Loeb and David F. Tinsley (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2019 = The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche, vol. 14), p. 59 (Notebook 3, number 159):
Insanity seldom occurs in individuals — but in groups, political parties, peoples, ages, it is the rule...
Friedrich Nietzsche, Nachgelassene Fragmente 1882-1884, edd. Giorgio Colli and Mazzino Montinari, 2. Aufl. (Munich: Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, 1988 = Kritische Studienausgabe, Bd. 10), p. 72:
Der Irrsinn ist selten bei Einzelnen — aber bei Gruppen, Parteien, Völkern, Zeiten die Regel...
By 1889 Nietzsche was insane.



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