![]() Strange! Incidentally, I am not at all as well as I had hoped. In summa: my lonesomeness, which, as on very high mountains, often made it hard for me to breathe and make my blood rush out, is now at least a twosomeness. Even though the divergencies are admittedly tremendous, they are due more to the difference in time, culture, and science. I am utterly amazed, utterly enchanted! I have a precursor, and what a precursor! I hardly knew Spinoza: that I should have turned to him just now, was inspired by "instinct." Not only is his overtendency like mine-namely to make all knowledge the most powerful affect - but in five main points of his doctrine I recognize myself this most unusual and loneliest thinker is closest to me precisely in these matters: he denies the freedom of the will, teleology, the moral world-order, the unegoistic, and evil.Quotes It is precisely facts that do not exist, only interpretations. ![]() ![]() 4.1 Alexander Star, "The Overman" (2012).1.15 Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed.1.14 Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks (posthumous).1.8 On the Genealogy of Morality (1887). ![]()
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