Lost Between Morgenröte and Nachlass
Lost was Nietzsche and lost I was trying to read him.
Skimming in these days the Morgenröte (The Dawn of Day), that aphoristic book from that weird man that thought that:
- Forgetting = strength.
- Morality = digestive problem.
- "I" = a grammatical habit.
- Advised to "live dangerously" + "become the one you are".
- Predicted our modern identity crises + collapse of shared values.
In Morgenröte (1886), Nietzsche was changing and becoming. A period of transformation.
If I had to pick a good line, would be this one:
Never Forget!—The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.
The book was a draft for the future Nietzsche. Scattered reflections on guilt, pity, religion, "good" and "evil". Disconnected thoughts, but more humane. Some stuff is impressive and even sounds modern.
...in an age of “work”: that is to say, of haste, of unseemly and immoderate hurry-skurry, which is intent upon “getting things done” at once,
...it is a prejudice of the learned to say that we now know it better than any other age.
...does not the true historian constantly contradict?
...they declared Nature was evil... then they invented “nature is good.”
History deals almost exclusively with these wicked men, who later on came to be recognized as good men.
Some light in the lines. A long later, he wrote his notes (the Nachlass). Wild playground of ideas. Two interesting to me:
- A universe of "quanta force".
- Everything repeats in a universe infinite in time.
Yep, reading Nietzsche is complicated. Streaks of lights through a expanse of shadows from a follower of the "godfather of gloom".
At the same time, maybe the path to salvation:
Transcends the "herd mentality."