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Nietzsche - Ecce Homo - Philosophy
Identifier
003813
Type of Spiritual Experience
Background
A description of the experience
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche – Ecce Homo
He who knows how to breathe the air of my writings knows that it is an air of the heights, a robust air. One has to be made for it, otherwise there is no small danger one will catch cold. The ice is near, the solitude is terrible – but how peacefully all things lie in the light! How freely one breathes! How much one feels beneath one!
Philosophy, as I have hitherto understood and lived it, is a voluntary living in ice and high mountains – a seeking after everything strange and questionable in existence, all that has hitherto been excommunicated by morality. From the lengthy experience afforded by such a wandering in the forbidden I learned to view the origin of moralising and idealising very differently from what might be desirable; the hidden history of philosophers, the psychology of their great names came to light for me – How much truth can a spirit bear, how much truth can a spirit dare? That became for me more and more the real measure of value
The source of the experience
Nietzsche, Friedrich WilhelmConcepts, symbols and science items
Science Items
Activities and commonsteps
Activities
Overloads
Lead poisoningLoneliness and isolation
Suppressions
Beauty, art and musicOpium
Suppressing memory