Author of quotes: Igor Ivanovich Garin. Page 55
I will study science, mathematics, physics, chemistry, history and political economy. I will collect a huge amount of material for the study of man, I will read old historical books, novels, memoirs and epistolaries ... The work is difficult, but I will not be alone, Plato, Aristotle, Goethe, Schopenhauer will always be with me; thanks to my beloved geniuses, I will not feel either the severity of labor or the acuteness of loneliness.
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They have already passed the age when they are hovering in dreams.
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First I must overcome myself and suppress all doubt in myself; in order to overcome my instincts, I must know them and be able to judge them, I must accustom myself to introspection.
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The culture created by brilliant loners is in no way connected with mass movements. National mercantilism, scientific rationalism and the state's desire to govern culture lead the latter not to prosperity, but to decline.
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It is impossible to understand to the end of the works of the thinker without linking them with the circumstances of his life.
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How many powerful powers have been forgotten by history, and rightly worthy of such oblivion. It is much less common to see historical greatness; it lies entirely in the creativity of great men. So, an unknown builder left mankind Notre Dame de Paris, Goethe gave us "Faust", Newton - the law of the solar system.
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The Paris events strengthened Nietzsche in the opinion that culture cannot exist without an elite, hierarchy, and discipline. Beauty was created by the elect for the elite, the mass does not need and does not perceive it. The mob does not need beauty, the mob is content with the small pleasures of life.
Quote Explanation: fire in Louvre 1871 year
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A crime for Nietzsche was the state of mind of his contemporaries, their irresponsibility, indifference, generally accepted values, total falsehood. Human averaging, conformism, thoughtlessness - this is who destroys monuments and museums, gives rise to irresponsibility, cowardice, spiritual slavery.
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The destruction of Paris, the fire in the Louvre in the May days of 1871, Nietzsche perceived as his own fault, as his own inability to reach out with his warnings to the powerful of this world.
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Our difficult task is to maintain philosophical calm amid all this bustle and vigilantly make sure that no one steals the heritage of culture in a thieves manner, since it is incomparable with anything, even with military heroism, even with a high national upsurge.
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He (Nietzsche) even has the idea to call the book The Tragic Man. It will be built on a triad: tragic art - tragic man - tragic state.
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A tragic person is nature itself in the highest tension of its creativity and consciousness.
Quote Explanation: The Formula for the Tragic
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Having received the order to accompany 11 wounded and sick, Nietzsche returned to Germany by ambulance train. For three days in a boxcar, he nurses patients with diphtheria and dysentery. As the saying goes, suffering is always certain; he now comprehends this certainty not from ancient books, but from his own experience.
Quote Explanation: Franco-Prussian War of 1870
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Suffering is the fastest way to comprehend the truth.
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Socrates destroyed the great myths, mysteries and arts, seduced mankind with the chimera of the "triumph of reason", the illusion of world harmony and order.
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