By Friedrich Nietzsche
In overdue 1888, basically weeks sooner than his ultimate cave in into insanity, Nietzsche (1844–1900) got down to compose his autobiography, and Ecce Homo continues to be the most fascinating but extraordinary examples of the style ever written. during this impressive paintings Nietzsche strains his existence, paintings and improvement as a thinker, examines the heroes he has pointed out with, struggled opposed to after which triumph over – Schopenhauer, Wagner, Socrates, Christ – and predicts the cataclysmic influence of his 'forthcoming revelation of all values'. either self-celebrating and self-mocking, penetrating and weird, Ecce Homo provides the ultimate, definitive expression to Nietzsche's major ideals and is in each manner his final testomony.
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Schopenhauer, Richard Wagner, Socrates, Christ make their final appearances – though the manner in which they do so shows that, if Nietzsche had continued to write, he would still have been preoccupied with them, since at least in the case of the last three, their seductiveness is something that one can never safely say one has conclusively overcome. It is Richard Wagner to whom Nietzsche most obsessively returns in Ecce Homo, no doubt because he is the only major figure in Nietzsche’s demonology with whom he had had a personal relationship, and one which Nietzsche was never inclined to devalue.
Those who keep silent almost always lack subtlety and politeness of the heart; silence is an objection, swallowing down necessarily produces a bad character – it even ruins the stomach. All those given to silence are dyspeptic. – One will see that I would not like to see rudeness undervalued, it is the most humane form of contradiction by far and, in the midst of modern tendermindedness, one of our foremost virtues. – If one is rich enough, it is even fortunate to be in the wrong. A god come to earth ought to do nothing whatever but wrong: to take upon oneself, not the punishment, but the guilt – only that would be godlike.
Public lectures ‘On the Future of our Educational Institutions’. 1873 Untimely Meditations I: David Strauss published. 1874 Untimely Meditations II: On the Use and Disadvantage of History for Life and III: Schopenhauer as Educator published. 1875 Meets Peter Gast, who is to become his earliest ‘disciple’. Suffers from ill-health leading to a general collapse at Christmas. 1876 Granted a long absence from Basle due to continuing ill-health. Proposes marriage to Mathilde Trampedach but is rejected.