Out of the Distance
Friedrich Nietzsche
Track 16 on The Gay Science
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Out of the Distance Lyrics
This mountain makes the whole district which it dominates charming in every way, and full of significance. After we have said this to ourselves for the hundredth time, we are so irrationally and so gratefully disposed towards it, as the giver of this charm, that we fancy it must itself be the most charming thing in the district and so we climb it, and are undeceived. All of a sudden, both it and the landscape around us and under us, are as it were disenchanted; we had forgotten that many a great ness, like many a goodness, wants only to be seen at a certain distance, and entirely from below, not from above, it is thus only that it operates. Perhaps you know men in your neighbourhood who can only look at themselves from a certain distance to find themselves at all endurable, or attractive and enlivening; they are to be dissuaded from self knowledge.
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- 12.Consciousness
- 16.Out of the Distance
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- 20.Evil
- 21.Dignity of Folly
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- 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
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- 75.The Unsuccessful
- 76.The Third Sex
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- 92.Precaution
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- 147.German Hopes
- 148.Question and Answer
- 151.Criticism of Saints
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