He never failed to drive correctly,
And his arrows went straight for the target
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I am not used to driving for small men. May I be excused?'
"Even a charioteer is ashamed to be in league with an archer. When doing so means catching enough birds to pile up like a mountain, he would still rather not do it. What can one do about those who bend @@ -137,9 +166,8 @@ one's original heart."
1 The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem.
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++ + + ++A feature in which our age certainly excels that age in Greece is that +our age is more depressed and therefore deeper in despair. Thus, our +age is sufficiently depressed to know that there is something called +responsibility and that this means something. Therefore, although +everyone wants to rule, no one wants to have responsibility. It is +still fresh in our memory that a French statesman, when offered a +portfolio the second time, declared that he would accept it but on the +condition that the secretary of state be made responsible. It is well +known that the king in France is not responsible, but the prime +minister is; the prime minister does not wish to be responsible but +wants to be prime minister provided that the secretary of state will +be responsible; ultimately it ends, of course, with the watchmen or +street commissioners becoming responsible. Would not this inverted +story of responsibility be an appropriate subject for Aristophanes! On +the other hand, why are the government and the governors so afraid of +assuming responsibility, unless it is because they fear an opposition +party that in turn continually pushes away responsibility on a similar +scale. When one imagines these two powers face to face with each other +but unable to catch hold of each other because the one is always +disappearing and is replaced by the other—such a situation would +certainly not be without comic power.
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++ + + - + April 16, 2010+30. Our highest insights must—and should—sound +like follies and sometimes like crimes when they are heard without +permission by those who are not predisposed and predestined for +them. The difference between the exoteric and the esoteric, formerly +known to philosophers—among the Indians as among the Greek, +Persians, and Muslims, in short, wherever one believed in an order of +rank and not in equality and equal rights—does not so much +consists in this, that the exoteric approach comes from the outside +and sees, estimates, measures, and judges from the outside, not the +inside; what is much more essential is that the exoteric approach sees +things from below, the esoteric looks down from above. There +are heights of the soul from which even tragedy ceases to look tragic; +and rolling together all the woe of the world—who could dare to +decide whether its sight would necessarily seduce us and +compel us to feel pity and thus double this woe?
+What serves the higher type of men as nourishment or delectation must +almost be poison for a very different and inferior type. The virtues +of the common man might perhaps signify vices and weaknesses in a +philosopher. It could be possible that a man of a high type, when +degenerating and perishing, might only at that point acquire qualities +that would require those in the lower sphere into which he had sunk to +begin to venerate him like a saint. There are books that have opposite +values for soul and health, depending on whether the lower soul, the +lower vitality, or the higher and more vigorous ones turn to them: in +the former case, these books are dangerous and lead to crumbling and +disintegration; in the latter, heralds' cries that call the bravest to +their courage. Books for all the world are always +foul-smelling books: the smell of small people clings to them. Where +the people eat and drink, even where they venerate, it usually +stinks. One should not go to church if one wants to breathe +pure air.
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