Ruinous.— The surest way of ruining a youth is to teach him to respect those who think as he does more highly than those who think differently from him.
Verderblich.— Man verdirbt einen Jüngling am sichersten, wenn man ihn anleitet, den Gleichdenkenden höher zu achten, als den Andersdenkenden.
"A peculiar anthologic maze, an amusing literary chaos, a farrago of quotations, a mere olla podrida of quaintness, a pot pourri of pleasant delites, a florilegium of elegant extracts, a tangled fardel of old-world flowers of thought, a faggot of odd fancies, quips, facetiae, loosely tied" (Holbrook Jackson, Anatomy of Bibliomania) by a "laudator temporis acti," a "praiser of time past" (Horace, Ars Poetica 173).
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Sunday, June 30, 2024
Corruption of the Young
Friedrich Nietzsche, Morgenröte, Book IV, § 297 (tr. R.J. Hollingdale, Daybreak):