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5 Nietzsche's Style
Nietzsche is unique among philosophers in his prose style, particularly in the Zarathustra. Perhaps not surprisingly for a pastor's son, he frequently employs an idiom
modelled on Luther's bible. Equally important are punning and paradox in his rhetoric. All this means that nuances and shades of meaning are all too easily lost in translation into English. A case in point is the thorny issue of the translation of Übermensch and its unfortunate association with superman and the Nazis.
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- "He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you ."
- "That which does not kill you makes you stronger."
- "A man's maturity -- consists in having found again the seriousness one had as a child, at play."
- "But to say it once more: there are higher problems than all problems of pleasure, pain, and pity; and every philosophy that stops with them is a naïveté."
- "The time for petty politics is over: the very next century will bring the fight for the dominion of the earth--- the compulsion to large-scale politics."
- "You go to women? Don't forget the whip."
- "The perfect woman is a higher type of human than the perfect man, and also something much more rare."
- "Women's intellect is manifested as perfect control, presence of mind, and utilization of all advantages."
7 See also
8 List of Works
- Aus meinem Leben, 1858
- Über Musik, 1858
- Napoleon III als Praesident, 1862
- Fatum und Geschichte, 1862
- Willensfreiheit und Fatum, 1862
- Kann der Neidische je wahrhaft glücklich sein ?, 1863
- Über Stimmungen, 1864
- Mein Leben, 1864
- Homer und die klassische Philologie, 1868
- Über die Zukunft unserer Bildungsantstalten
- Fünf Vorreden zu fünf ungeschriebenen Büchern, 1872 :
- I Über das Pathos der Wahrheit [1]
- II Gedanken über die Zukunft unserer Bildungsantstalten
- III Der griechische Staat [2]
- IV Das Verhältnis der Schopenhauerischen Philosophie zu einer deutschen Cultur [3]
- V Homer's Wettkampf
- Die Geburt der Tragödie, 1872 (The Birth of Tragedy)
- Über Wahrheit und Lüge im aussermoralischen Sinn
- Die Philosophie im tragischen Zeitalter der Griechen
- Unzeitgemässe Betrachtungen, 1876 (Untimely Meditations)
- Menschliches, Allzumenschliches, 1878 (Human, All Too Human)
- Morgenröte, 1881 (Daybreak, or The Dawn)
- Die fröhliche Wissenschaft, 1882 (The Gay Science)
- Also sprach Zarathustra, 1885 (Thus Spake Zarathustra)
- Jenseits von Gut und Böse, 1886 (Beyond Good and Evil)
- Zur Genealogie der Moral, 1887 (On the Genealogy of Morals)
- Der Fall Wagner, 1888 (The Case of Wagner)
- Götzen-Dämmerung, 1888 (The Twilight of the Idols)
- Der Antichrist, 1888 (The Antichrist)
- Ecce Homo , 1888 (Behold the Man, an attempt at autobiography; the title refers to Pontius Pilate's statement upon meeting Jesus of Nazareth)
- Nietzsche contra Wagner, 1888 (Nietzsche vs. Wagner)
- Der Wille zur Macht , 1901 ( The Will to Power, a highly selective collection of notes from various notebooks, not intended for publication by Nietzsche himself, but released by his sister)
