What Friedrich Nietzsche thinks about humility
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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1 dated position, c. 1878, in their own words. Our reading of what Friedrich Nietzsche has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Our readingAn advanced civilization values small scientific truths above magnificent metaphysical errors
Their wordsIt is the characteristic of an advanced civilization to set a higher value upon little, simple truths, ascertained by scientific method, than upon the pleasing and magnificent errors originating in metaphysical and æsthetical epochs and peoples.
↗Human, All Too Human (1878; Alexander Harvey translation, 1908)gutenberg.org All 18 from this book