Daybreak

BOOK I

1

Supplemental rationality.  All things that live long are gradually so saturated with reason that their origin in unreason thereby becomes improbable. Does not almost every precise history of an origination impress our feelings as paradoxical and wantonly offensive? Does the good historian not, at bottom, constantly contradict?

Friedrich NietzscheDaybreak: Book I - Aphorism #128713 years, 1 month ago 

2

Prejudice of the learned.  The learned judge correctly that people of all ages have believed they know what is good and evil, praise- and blameworthy. But it is a prejudice of the learned that we now know better than any other age.

Friedrich NietzscheDaybreak: Book I - Aphorism #223813 years, 1 month ago 

3

Everything has its day.  When man gave all things a sex he thought, not that he was playing, but that he had gained a profound insight:  it was only very late that he confessed to himself what an enormous error this was, and perhaps even now he has not confessed it completely.  In the same way man has ascribed to all that exists a connection with morality and laid an ethical significance on the world's back. One day this will have as much value, and no more, as the belief in the masculinity or femininity of the sun has today.

Friedrich NietzscheDaybreak: Book I - Aphorism #324513 years, 1 month ago 

4

Against the imagined disharmony of the spheres.  We must again rid the world of much false grandeur, because it offends against the justice which all things may lay claim to from us! And to that end it is necessary not to want to see the world as being more disharmonious than it is!

Friedrich NietzscheDaybreak: Book I - Aphorism #423913 years, 1 month ago 

5

Be grateful!  The greatest accomplishment of past mankind is that we no longer have to live in continual fear of wild animals, of barbarians, of gods and of our own dreams.

Friedrich NietzscheDaybreak: Book I - Aphorism #522813 years, 1 month ago