The Will to Power by Friedrich Nietzsche--Delphi Classics (Illustrated) by Friedrich Nietzsche

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche [NIETZSCHE, FRIEDRICH]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Parts Edition 20 of 24 by Delphi Classics
Publisher: Delphi Classics (Parts Edition)
Published: 2017-08-26T00:00:00+00:00

“That which is necessarily true in thought must be necessarily true in morality.” — HERBERT SPENCER.

“The ultimate test of the truth of a proposition is the inconceivableness of its negation.” — HERBERT SPENCER.

542.

If the character of existence were false, — and this would be possible, — what would truth then be, all our truth? ... An unprincipled falsification of the false? A higher degree of falseness? ...

543.

In a world which was essentially false, truthfulness would be an anti-natural tendency: its only purpose would be to provide a means of attaining to a higher degree of falsity. For a world of truth and Being to be simulated, the truthful one would first have to be created (it being understood that he must believe himself to be “truthful”).

Simple, transparent, not in contradiction with himself, lasting, remaining always the same to himself, free from faults, sudden changes, dissimulation, and form: such a man conceives a world of Being as “God” in His own image.

In order that truthfulness may be possible, the whole sphere in which man moves must be very tidy, small, and respectable: the advantage in every respect must be with the truthful one. — Lies, tricks, dissimulations, must cause astonishment.

544.

“Dissimulation” increases in accordance with the rising order of rank among organic beings. In the inorganic world it seems to be entirely absent. — There power opposes power quite roughly — ruse begins in the organic world; plants are already masters of it. The greatest men, such as Cæsar and Napoleon (see Stendhal’s remark concerning him),* as also the higher races (the Italians), the Greeks (Odysseus); the most supreme cunning, belongs to the very essence of the elevation of man.... The problem of the actor. My Dionysian ideal.... The optics of all the organic functions, of all the strongest vital instincts: the power which will have error in all life; error as the very first principle of thought itself. Before “thought” is possible, “fancy” must first have done its work; the picturing of identical cases, of the seemingness of identity, is more primeval than the cognition of identity.

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