The Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1903 Excerpt: ... have to pay for the "general safety " is far too high, and, what is the maddest thing of all, we effect the very reverse of the general safety, a fact which our own century has undertaken to prove, as though it had never been proved before Making society safe against thieves and fire, and thoroughly fit for all trade and traffic, and transforming the State in a good and evil sense into a kind of Providence--these are low, moderate, and by no means indispensable aims, which we ought not to strive after with the highest means and instruments in existence--these we ought to reserve for our highest and rarest aims. Our age, however much it may talk about economy, is a lavisher: it lavishes the most precious thing of all--the intellect. 180 Wars.--The great wars of the present times are the results of the study of history. 181 Governing.---Some people govern from a mere passion for governing; others in order not to be governed. To the latter it is only the lesser of two evils. 182 Rough consistency.--People say with great reverence, "He is a character "--that is, if he shows a rough consistency, though this consistency be obvious even to the dullest eye. But whenever a subtler and deeper intellect shows consistency in its higher methods, the spectators deny the existence of character. This is why cunning statesmen usually act their comedy under a cloak of rough consistency. 183 The old and the young.--"There is something immoral in Parliaments," so many seem to reason even now, "for there one may have views quite opposed to the government." "We ought unconditionally to adopt that view which the gracious sovereign commands "--this is the eleventh commandment in many an honest, aged brain, especially in the north...