Friedrich Nietzsche
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
The literary woman, unsatisfied, agitated, desolate in heart and entrails, listening every minute with painful curiosity to the imperative which whispers from the depths of her organism "aut liberi aut libri [either children or books]."
—Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols
Posted on September 18, 2003 at 9:39 PM
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
The aphorism, the apophthegm, in which I am the first master among Germans, are the forms of "eternity"; my ambition is to say in ten sentences what everyone else says in a book-- what everyone else does not say in a book.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols
Posted on March 17, 2003 at 11:41 PM
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
The significance of language for the evolution of culture lies in this, that mankind set up in language a separate world beside the other world, a place it took to be so firmly set that, standing upon it, it could lift the rest of the world off its hinges and make itself master of it. To the extent that man has for long ages believed in the concepts and names of things as in aeternae veritates he has appropriated to himself that pride by which he raised himself above the animal: he really thought that in language he possessed knowledge of the world.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human
Posted on March 26, 2003 at 10:58 AM
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