/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.4793261]

>In some remote corner of the universe, poured out and glittering in innumerable solar systems, there once was a star on which clever animals invented knowledge. That was the highest and most mendacious minute of "world history" — yet only a minute. After nature had drawn a few breaths the star grew cold, and the clever animals had to die. One might invent such a fable and still not have illustrated sufficiently how wretched, how shadowy and flighty, how aimless and arbitrary, the human intellect appears in nature. There have been eternities when it did not exist; and when it is done for again, nothing will have happened.

>tfw you are one of those creatures

[Anonymous No.4793271]

>>4793261
yfw early nietzsche was a true detective

[Anonymous No.4793281]

Thus spoke zarathustra sucks nevertheless. It's written brilliantly but after a few zarathustra speeches you have fully understood the three concepts nietzsche wanted to present. What follows are endless repetitions of latter and you get bored to death

[Anonymous No.4793325]

>>4793281
i thought it had serious problems (compared to his other work) when i read it but now thinking back i like it more

it's the most comic of his books, and for me nietzsche was a writer who was attempting to be comic above all else. he was trying to escape wagner and move to rossini.

[Anonymous No.4793333]

Sigh...