– You sober people who feel armed against passion and phantastical conceptions and would like to make your emptiness a matter of pride and an ornament – you call yourself realists and insinuate that the world really is the way it appears to you: before you alone reality stands unveiled, and you yourselves are perhaps the best part of it – oh, you beloved images of Sais!1 But aren’t you too in your unveiled condition still most passionate and dark creatures, compared to fish, and still all too similar to an artist in love? And what is ‘reality’ to an artist in love! You still carry around the valuations of things that originate in the passions and loves of former centuries! Your sobriety still contains a secret and inextirpable drunkenness! Your love of ‘reality’, for example – oh, that is an old, ancient ‘love’! In every experience, in every sense impression there is a piece of this old love and some fantasy, some prejudice, some irrationality, some ignorance, some fear, and whatever else, has worked on and contributed to it. ( Wikipedia) Text from this book:ĥ7 To the realists. It was noted by Nietzsche to be “the most personal of all books”, and contains the greatest number of poems in any of his published works.
This substantial expansion includes a fifth book and an appendix of songs. I don't know any German though.Ĭontext: This will be my first Nietzsche, I just recently finished most of Albert Camus' major works.The Gay Science (German: Die fröhliche Wissenschaft) or The Joyful Wisdom is a book by Friedrich Nietzsche, first published in 1882 and followed by a second edition, which was published after the completion of Thus Spoke Zarathustra and Beyond Good and Evil, in 1887.
unless the German is so different from English that it's nonsensical or something.
I've read how Kaufmann is generally more indicative of the "spirit" rather than literal, but I think literal would be what I prefer.
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