I am utterly amazed, utterly enchanted ! I have a precursor, and what a precursor ! I hardly knew Spinoza: that I should have turned to him just now, was inspired by instinct . Not only is his overtendency like mine - namely to make all knowledge the most powerful affect - but in five main points of his doctrine I recognize myself ... this most unusual and loneliest thinker is closest to me precisely in these matters: He denies the freedom of the will, teleology, the moral world-order, the unegoistic, and evil. Even though the divergencies are admittedly tremendous, they are due more to the difference in time, culture, and science. In summa: My lonesomeness, which, as on very high mountains, often made it hard for me to breathe and make my blood rush out, is now at least a twosomeness ... ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, From a postcard to Franz Overbeck, Sils-Maria ( 30 July 1881 )
Posted on: Wed, 19 Mar 2014 00:50:07 +0000
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