Untimely Meditations by Friedrich Nietzsche

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1997-07-14T16:00:00+00:00

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*ceterum censeo: but I’m of the opinion

*fiat veritas, pereat vita: let truth prevail though life perish

*vilia corpora: vile bodies

†Alludes to the closing lines of Goethe’s Faust II: ‘Das Ewig-Weibliche/Zieht uns hinan’. Nietzsche often alludes to the phrase, always in an ironic-humorous tone: he failed, I think, to discover any meaning in it.

*‘Voltairean écrasez’: alludes to Voltaire’s motto ‘écrasez l’infame!’ – destroy the infamous thing (i.e. the Church).

†Protestant Union: the military alliance formed between 1608 and 1621 by the Protestant princes of Germany.

‡‘greatest theologian of the century’: Schleiermacher (see glossary).

*Tacitus described his own manner of writing history as ‘sina ira et studio’ (‘without anger and without partisan zeal’). Studium means ‘course of study’.

*natura naturans: Spinoza’s term for God under the aspect of creating nature, as opposed to created nature – as the cause of all things.

*‘prodigal of a great soul’ (Horace, Odes I.XII.38), here employed in the sense ‘careless of life’.

*From As You Like It, Act II Scene vii.

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