Idleness is the beginning of all psychology. Turin, September 30, 1888, on the day when the first book of the Revaluation of All Values was completed. That does not prevent them from being those in which people have the most faith nor does one ever say "idol," especially not in the most distinguished instance. Perhaps a new war, too? And are new idols sounded out? This little essay is a great declaration of war and regarding the sounding out of idols, this time they are not just idols of the age, but eternal idols, which are here touched with a hammer as with a tuning fork: there are no idols that are older, more assured, more puffed-up and none more hollow. This essay the title betrays it is above all a recreation, a spot of sunshine, a leap sideways into the idleness of a psychologist. There are more idols than realities in the world: that is my "evil eye" upon this world that is also my "evil ear." Finally to pose questions with a hammer, and sometimes to hear as a reply that famous hollow sound that can only come from bloated entrails what a delight for one who has ears even behind his ears, for me, an old psychologist and pied piper before whom just that which would remain silent must finally speak out. Increscunt animi, virescit volnere virtus.Īnother mode of convalescence (in certain situations even more to my liking) is sounding out idols. A maxim, the origin of which I withhold from scholarly curiosity, has long been my motto: War has always been the great wisdom of all spirits who have become too introspective, too profound even in a wound there is the power to heal. Every means is proper to do this every "case" is a case of luck. Excess strength alone is the proof of strength.Ī revaluation of all values: this question mark, so black, so huge that it casts a shadow over the man who puts it down such a destiny of a task compels one to run into the sunlight at every opportunity to shake off a heavy, all-too-heavy seriousness. Maintaining cheerfulness in the midst of a gloomy task, fraught with immeasurable responsibility, is no small feat and yet what is needed more than cheerfulness? Nothing succeeds if prankishness has no part in it. Of an Untimely Man + What I Owe to the Ancients + The Hammer Speaks Great Errors + The "Improvers" of Mankind + What the Germans Lack + Skirmishes How the "True World" Finally Became a Fable + Morality as Anti-Nature + The Four Preface + Maxims and Arrows + The Problem of Socrates + "Reason" in Philosophy + Nietzsche : Twilight of the Idols Die Götzen-Dämmerung - Twilight of the IdolsĪnd the translations by Walter Kaufmann and R.J.
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