today we read of Don Quixote with a bitter taste in the mouth, it isalmost an ordeal, which would make us seem very strange and incomprehensibleto the author and his contemporaries, they read it with a clearconscience as the funniest of books, it made them nearly laugh themselvesto death).To see suffering does you good, to make suffer, better still thatOn the Genealogy of Morality4248 See below, Supplementary material, pp. 1534.49 See below, Supplementary material, pp. 1379, pp. 1401, pp. 1434.50 Don Quixote, Book II, chs 317.is a hard proposition, but an ancient, powerful, human-all-too-humanproposition to which, by the way, even the apes might subscribe: as peoplesay, in thinking up bizarre cruelties they anticipate and, as it were, act outa demonstration of what man will do. No cruelty, no feast: that is whatthe oldest and longest period in human history teaches us and punishment,too, has such very strong festive aspects!
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Friedrich Nietzsche was a 19th-century German philosopher. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche was a German philosopher who started his career as a classical philologist and turned to philosophy early in his academic career. In 1869, aged 24, he was appointed Professor of Classical Philology at the University of Basel. Read more on Wikipedia →