dusio

What do you mean by saying that "Nietzche was a Congenital Idiot"? I would like to know something more about your point of view. It may be very interesting... But first, not " Nietzche", but Nietzsche. Show some respect, please; He was a great philosopher, and the fact, you don't approve His work does not justify your ignorance.

brionon

Wow, Angry Nietsenien; Sorry mate but I respect NO Filosofer. But I don't want to annoy you. Each to his own is my motto.

brionon

I made a Filosofical point. It takes a bit of brain work to see the point. Try again.

dusio

Ok, I don't want to argue with you. I understand that not everyone likes Nietzsche's philosophy.

JimiLe

dusio makes a good point about hidden meanings in Nietzsche. He uses puns and play on words a great deal. For instance, he uses the word "agrund" that is translated as "abyss" and literally means the absence of ground or foundation.

The quote is also coupled together with a preceding phrase. *One* english translation of aphorism 146 in Beyond Good & Evil is:

It has also been translated "fight dragons too long, you risk becoming a dragon. And if you stare into the abyss too long, the abyss will stare back at you."

Nietzsche took great pains -- literally -- to polish his aphorisms. He pointed out in Ecco Homo -- rather immodestly -- that he tries to say in paragraph what others try to say in a book and fail to adequately say. There are many layers and depths in his aphorisms.

And my own conclusions about Nietzsche is to always recall that he was trail-brazing his way through the forests of Western thought and only caught glimpses of the way out. In a number of places he implicitly admits that he hadn't found the answer. (One of this instances is in The Gay Science, aphorism 125 entitled "The Madman", where the "madman" announces "the death of God." At the end of it he says that the meaning of this event will not be understood for quite some time: implicitly acknowledging that he saw the problem but not it's full solution.

He saw the requirement of finding one's own answers or writing one's one table of values as he put it. As to criticisms of him, it's true he was rather misanthropic. And it's rather telling that a correspondance of mine once astutely pointed out that his name can be read as a personal ad: Friedrich Needs-She.

--Jimi Le (a former Nietzsche scholar)

dusio

So, so so... well said