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Sunday, April 30, 2023

The General Journey Of The Philosopher Without Affectation

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Émile Faguet, On Reading Nietzsche , tr. George Raaffalovich (New York, 1918), ch. I., Nietzsche Seeks Himself, pp. 1-2: Often, if not alway...

Sweet Pains

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Henri Bremond,  A Literary History of Religious Thought in France: From the Wars of Religion down to our Times , tr. K. L. Montgomery (Macmi...

Education And Killing Originality

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Émile Faguet,  The Cult of Incopmetence , tr. Beatrice Barstow (New York, 1914), ch. XI., Attempted Remedies, pp. 185-187: The precocious de...
Saturday, April 29, 2023

Rerum Fragor

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Gur Zak, Petrarch's Humanism and the Care of the Self  (Cambridge, 2010), Intro., pp. 1-4: . . . here was the palace of Evander, there t...
Tuesday, April 25, 2023

How Things Get Spoiled: Vermoralisierung

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Friedrich Nietzsche, Genealogy of Morals , 2nd essay, §7 (tr. Horace B. Samuel): . . . it should be shown specifically that, at the time whe...
Tuesday, April 18, 2023

Philosophy: A Rare Plant

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Friedrich Nietzsche, Wille zur Macht , §420 (tr. A. M. Ludovici): I do not wish to convert anybody to philosophy: it is both necessary and p...
Sunday, April 9, 2023

Growing Older And Lonelier

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Friedrich Nietzsche, a Letter to Herr Ob. Reg. R. Krug, November 16, 1880 (tr. A. Ludovici):  With what wistful eyes you will look back upon...
Thursday, April 6, 2023

Alone Am I

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Christine de Pisan or Cristina da Pizzano (± 1363 – ± 1431), Ballade XI. (translation found in William A. Nitze's and E. Preston Dargan...
Wednesday, April 5, 2023

The Road Through The Dialogues

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Albinus, The Introduction of Albinus to the Dialogues of Plato , tr. George Burges, ch. 8 (found in: The Works of Plato, Bohn's Classica...
Monday, April 3, 2023

Absolute Self-Abnegation

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Oscar Browning, A Short History of Education , edt. W. H. Payne, 1897, p. 55: Pestalozzi [Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi], on the other hand, wa...
Friday, March 31, 2023

Confidence, Lack Of Confidence, Pride, And Vanity

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Johann Georg Zimmermann, Essay on National Pride, to Which are added Memoirs of the Author's Life and Writings , tr. Samuel Hull Wilcock...
Tuesday, March 28, 2023

Nature, The Greeks' Spirit, Their Art, And What Sets Them Apart

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John Addington Symonds, Studies on the Greek Poets , vol. II. (New York: 1880), ch. XXIII., The Genius of Greek Art, pp. 370-372: Nature is ...

Nature And Man And The Soul

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Friedrich Wilhelm von Schelling, On the Relation of the Plastic Arts to Nature (1807) , tr. J. Elliot Cabot, ( The German Classics: Masterpi...
Saturday, March 25, 2023

Hours Of Youth, Of beauty, And Of Magic

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Malwida von Meysenbug, Memories of an Idealist , tr. Monte B. Gardiner (1999; A thesis submitted to the faculty of Brigham Young University)...
Thursday, March 23, 2023

The Saddest Fate

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Anonymous,  The Saddest Fate : To touch a broken lute, To strike a jangled string, To strive with tones forever mute The dear old tunes to s...

Lover Bismarck

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Otto von Bismarck, Love Letters , Schönhausen, October 10, 1850 ( Masterpieces of German Literature , vol. x., pp. 70-71): It is still impos...
Wednesday, March 22, 2023

Between Age And Youth

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Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, Aphorisms, 1892, tr. Mrs. Annis Lee Wister (Masterpieces of German Literature, vol. 13, p. 434): In youth we lea...

The Dogmatic And The One With Open Vistas

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Friedrich Nietzsche, Unpublished Fragments (Spring 1885-Spring 1886) , tr. Adrian Del Caro (Stanford University Press, 2020), §34[25], p. 6:...
Monday, March 20, 2023

To Live In Obscurity (Especially In An Age Of Spectacles)

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Abraham Cowley, Essays , Of Obscurity: Bene qui latuit, bene vixit , He has lived well, who has lain well hidden. Which, if it be a truth, t...
Sunday, March 19, 2023

Lente Sed Attente

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George Wither, A Collection of Emblems, Ancient and Modern ,  Illvstr . XIX., Bk. 1: Experience  proves, that Men who trust upon Their Nat...