Dignity of Folly
Friedrich Nietzsche
Track 21 on The Gay Science
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Dignity of Folly Lyrics
Several millenniums further on in the path of the last century - and in everything that man does the highest prudence will be exhibited: but just thereby prudence will have lost all its dignity. It will then, sure enough, be necessary to be prudent, but it will also be so usual and common, that a more fastidious taste will feel this necessity as vulgarity. And just as a tyranny of truth and science would be in a position to raise the value of falsehood, a tyranny of prudence could force into prominence a new species of nobleness. To be noble that might then mean, perhaps, to be capable of follies.
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- 12.Consciousness
- 19.Ancient Pride
- 20.Evil
- 21.Dignity of Folly
- 27.What is Life?
- 37.Last Words
- 39.Explosive People
- 40.Altered Taste
- 42.Against Remorse
- 43.Work and boredom
- 44.What Laws reveal
- 45.Supposed Motives
- 46.Epicurus
- 47.Our Astonishment
- 52.Sense for Truth
- 58.To the Realists
- 60.We Artists!
- 63.Love
- 64.Woman in Music
- 65.Sceptics
- 66.Devotedness
- 68.Self dissembling
- 73.Mothers
- 74.Saintly Cruelty
- 75.The Unsuccessful
- 76.The Third Sex
- 81.Art and Nature
- 82.Grecian taste
- 84.Translations
- 87.The Theatre
- 90.Now and Formerly
- 92.Precaution
- 93.Prose and Poetry
- 96.Chamfort
- 97.Two Orators
- 102.Voltaire
- 104.German Music
- 107.Music as Advocate
- 109.New Struggles
- 111.Origin of Knowledge
- 113.Cause and Effect
- 116.The Four Errors
- 117.Herd Instinct
- 119.Benevolence
- 120.No Altruism!
- 121.Health of the Soul
- 122.Life no Argument
- 126.The Madman
- 129.The Value of Prayer
- 133.Against Christianity
- 134.Axioms
- 136.Origin of Sin
- 137.The Chosen People
- 138.Spoken in Parable
- 139.The Error of Christ.
- 141.Too Jewish
- 142.Too Oriental
- 143.Frankincense
- 145.Religious Wars
- 147.German Hopes
- 148.Question and Answer
- 151.Criticism of Saints
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