“Innocence”: that is their name for the ideal state of stupefaction; “blessedness”: the ideal state of sloth; “love”: the ideal state of the herd animal that no longer wants to have enemies. Therewith one has raised everything that debases and lowers man to an ideal.
„Unschuld“: so heissen sie den Idealzustand der Verdummung; „Seligkeit“: den Idealzustand der Faulheit; „Liebe“: den Idealzustand des Heerdenthiers, das keinen Feind mehr haben will. Damit hat man Alles, was den Menschen erniedrigt und herunterbringt, in's Ideal erhoben.
"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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Saturday, July 13, 2024
Ideals
Friedrich Nietzsche, The Will to Power, Book II, § 335 (tr. Walter Kaufmann):