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With the great quality of egoism, great deeds and great merits became extinct.
The Revival of Aristocracy (1906)
“Oh ! the years I have lost,” will be the exclamation of a man, if he be not philosophical, and not possess Friedrich Nietzsche’s appreciation of the value of sorrow in education.
The Revival of Aristocracy (1906)
In spite of my attack on Christianity: the Englishman who is a Christian is very much nearer to my heart than he who is not.
The Revival of Aristocracy (1906)
Surely it is not every one who is chosen to combat a religion or a morality of two thousand years’ standing, fist within and then without himself.
A man was wise if heavy and tardy, like all phlegmatic temperaments; learned if he wrote books with one eye on the public and the other on his colleague.
The Revival of Aristocracy (1906)
Nietzsche, unlike Jesus Christ, did not mistake his common folk and their ideals; he knew all they wanted was bread and fish, and that they spurned the bread which “cometh from Heaven.”
The Revival of Aristocracy (1906)
Goethe … thought that the Englishman only observed without generalizing, whilst the German generalized without observing.
The Revival of Aristocracy (1906)
German erudition of his time he held in little esteem. “They go to work like galley slaves,” was his charge. “They do not write on a theme because inspired; but the theme comes first, and with assiduous and laborious study they hope to evolve something brilliant out of it.”
The Revival of Aristocracy (1906)
As to the journalists, those gutter-boys who peeped into the work-shop of the spirit through the key-holes, in order to communicate to their fellow-urchins what they thought they had seen ...
The Revival of Aristocracy (1906)
While in the nineteenth century you [Englishmen] have been occupied in consolidating an empire, conquering new countries, and spreading civilization to all parts of the world, you have in true British magnanimity forgotten to confer this blessing upon yourselves.
The Revival of Aristocracy (1906)