What Friedrich Nietzsche thinks about Europe
German philosopher (1844 to 1900); professor of classical philology at Basel from 1869 to 1879; author of Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Beyond Good and Evil and Twilight of the Idols.
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3 dated positions, c. 1886, in their own words. Our reading of what Friedrich Nietzsche has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Our readingThe modern European conscience comes down to the herd's timid wish that nothing be left to fear
Their wordsWhoever examines the conscience of the present-day European, will always elicit the same imperative from its thousand moral folds and hidden recesses, the imperative of the timidity of the herd "we wish that some time or other there may be NOTHING MORE TO FEAR!"
↗Beyond Good and Evil (1886; Helen Zimmern translation)gutenberg.org All 20 from this book
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Their wordsMORALITY IN EUROPE AT PRESENT IS HERDING-ANIMAL MORALITY, and therefore, as we understand the matter, only one kind of human morality, beside which, before which, and after which many other moralities, and above all HIGHER moralities, are or should be possible.
↗Beyond Good and Evil (1886; Helen Zimmern translation)gutenberg.org All 20 from this book
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Their wordsI meant to say that the democratising of Europe is at the same time an involuntary arrangement for the rearing of TYRANTS—taking the word in all its meanings, even in its most spiritual sense.
↗Beyond Good and Evil (1886; Helen Zimmern translation)gutenberg.org All 20 from this book