Thursday, July 15, 2021

 

Stopgap

Friedrich Nietzsche, Unpublished Fragments from the Period of Thus Spoke Zarathustra (Summer 1882-Winter 1883/84), tr.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. 382 (Notebook 13, number 1):
And there, where your understanding has sprung a leak, you quickly stick the poorest of all plugs: his name is "God."
Friedrich Nietzsche, Nachgelassene Fragmente 1882-1884, edd. Giorgio Colli and Mazzino Montinari, 2. Aufl. (Munich: Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, 1988 = Kritische Studienausgabe, Bd. 10), p. 427:
Und wo euer Verstand eine Lücke hat, da stellt ihr flugs den ärmsten aller Lückenbüßer hinein: „Gott“ ist sein Name.



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