The gay science excerpts

All these, however, are so rarely united at the same time that I am inclined to believe that the highest summit of all that is good, be it work, deed, man, or nature, has hitherto remained for most people, and even for the best, as something concealed and shrouded-that, however, which unveils itself to us, unveils itself to us but once.

All Quotes Quotes By Friedrich Nietzsche. The words 'The Gay Science' translate the German title 'Die Frohliche Wissenschaft'. Refresh and try again. The Gay Science (German: Die fröhliche Wissenschaft; sometimes translated as The Joyful Wisdom or The Joyous Science) is a book by Friedrich Nietzsche published in , and followed by a second edition in after the completion of Thus Spoke Zarathustra and Beyond Good and Evil.

tags: humaneness. But perhaps this is the greatest charm of life: it puts a gold- embroidered veil of lovely potentialities over itself, promising, resisting, modest, mocking, sympathetic, seductive. Want to Read saving…. The poison which destroys the weaker nature strengthens the stronger — and he does not call it poison, either.

The Gay Science (Excerpts) By Friedrich Nietzsche () (This material was compiled from various sources in the United States public domain). It is there that all the more refined laws of style have their origin: they at the same time keep off, they create distance, they prevent "access" intelligibility, as we have said, while they open the ears of those who are acoustically related to them.

tags: atheism , buddha , god , god-is-dead , religion , shadow. This substantial expansion includes the addition of a fifth book to the existing four books of The Gay Science. No one, presumably, is going to be misled by the more recent associations of the word 'gay' - it simply means joyful, light-hearted, and above all, lacking in solemnity (section , on taking things seriously, says something about this).

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We must not only stand at precisely the right place to see this, our very soul itself must have pulled away the veil from its heights, and must be in need of an external expression and simile, so as to have a hold and remain master of itself. Join Goodreads. God is dead, but given the way people are, there may still be caves for millennia in which his shadow is displayed.

I mean to say that the world is overfull of beautiful things, but it is nevertheless poor, very poor, in beautiful moments, and in the unveiling of those beautiful things. tags: adversity , men , peoples , stronger , virtue , weaker. "Gay Science": that signifies the saturnalia of a spirit who has patiently resisted a terrible, long pressure—patiently, severely, coldly, without submitting, but also without hope—and who is now all at once attacked by hope, the hope for health, and the intoxication of convalescence.

Sign in with Facebook Sign in options. The Greeks indeed prayed: "Twice and thrice, everything beautiful! tags: esoteric , intellect , nietzsche , reader , taste , thoughts. This godlike feeling would then be called - humaneness. Error rating book. Get ready to explore The Gay Science and its meaning.

To see the ultimate beauties in a work-all knowledge and good-will is not enough; it requires the rarest, good chance for the veil of clouds to move for once from the summits, and for the sun to shine on them. Study with Quizlet and memorize flashcards containing terms like Who wrote it?, What does the geology of moral exploration of good and evil look at?, Good (for ancients) and more.

Yes, life is a woman! tags: life-experience , motivation , philosophy , self-realisation. The Gay Science Quotes Showing of A distinguished intellect and taste, when it wants to communicate its thoughts, always selects its hearers; by selecting them, it at the same time closes its barriers against "the others".