ext_229108 ([identity profile] voglia-di-notte.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] ricardienne 2006-03-16 04:19 am (UTC)

But Confucius is so much more confusing than Nietzsche!

Wait. Are you reading the Aphorisms or something? Those are rather random, but some of them are amusing. "Tourists.--They climb mountains like animals, stupid and sweating; one has forgotten to tell them that there are beautiful things on the way up."

And I rather like the opening of the first essay of the Genealogy on Morals: "These English psychologists, whom one has also to thank for the only attempts hitherto to arrive at a history or the origin of morality--they themselves are no easy riddle; I confess that, as living riddles, they even possess one essential advantage over their books--they are interesting!"

Erhem.

I mean, I'm sorry that you have to read 300+ pages of Nietzsche (that does seem a bit much) and that you've got an essay to write. (I'm currently not writing an essay, too. :P)

At least your essay isn't on Nietzsche like mine?

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