the Nietzsche quote

James W. Horton jwhorton at bosshog.arts.uwo.ca
Tue Apr 25 21:42:03 CDT 1995


> I call Christianity the one great curse, the one great intrinsic depravity,
> the one great instinct for revenge for which no expedient is sufficiently
> poisonous, secret, subterranean, petty -- I call it the one immortal
> blemish of mankind.  -- Friedrich Nietzsche
> 

This is not exactly about TP, I am (temporarily) burned out with TP since 
the thesis, but I had to respond to 
this. I like Nietzsche a lot, but am I alone in having gotten the feeling 
that the more he talks about resentment, revenge, hatred, etc. the more he
is really nodding and winking at us and saying in effect, "don't 
take me TOO seriously old boy, I'm really full of the same shit too"?


						jwh



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