“The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.”<\/p>\n
This quote is widely cited but rarely sourced. The quote is from Human, All Too Human : A Book for Free Spirits<\/em>, aphorism 580. This text was written in three parts over 1878-1880. Interestingly, it is not a widely available text, with only a smattering of aphorisms available in The Portable Nietzsche<\/em> and the Modern Library Basic Writings<\/em> collections. A Cambridge edition exists but hardly one you find at the typical local bookseller. Why has a publisher like Penguin not released a Classics edition? Odd.<\/p>\n There are a couple of online editions accessible, using the Helen Zimmern 1909-1913 translation.<\/p>\n http:\/\/nietzsche.holtof.com\/Nietzsche_human_all_too_human<\/a><\/p>\n http:\/\/www.davemckay.co.uk\/philosophy\/nietzsche\/<\/a><\/p>\n Some other aphorisms from the same source:<\/p>\n 579: Not suited to be a party member.<\/em> He who thinks much is not suited to be a party member: too soon, he thinks himself through and beyond the party.<\/p>\n 581: Causing oneself pain.<\/em> Inconsiderate thinking is often the sign of a discordant inner state which craves numbness.<\/p>\n 390: Women’s friendship<\/em>. Women can very well enter into a friendship with a man, but to maintain it–a little physical antipathy must help out.<\/p>\n 388: Different sighs.<\/em> A few men have sighed because their women were abducted; most, because no one wanted to abduct them.<\/p>\n 85: Malice is rare.<\/em> Most men are much too concerned with themselves to be malicious.<\/p>\n 468: Innocent corruption<\/em>. In all institutions that do not feel the sharp wind of public criticism (as, for example, in scholarly organizations and senates), an innocent corruption grows up, like a mushroom.<\/p>\n 444: War.<\/em> One can say against war that it makes the victor stupid and the vanquished malicious. In favor of war, one can say that it barbarizes through both these effects and thus makes man more natural; war is the sleep or wintertime of culture: man emerges from it with more strength, both for the good and for the bad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" “The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.” This quote is widely cited but rarely sourced. The quote is from Human, All Too Human : A Book for Free Spirits, aphorism 580. This text was written in three parts over 1878-1880. Interestingly, it […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-orts","category-11-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":153,"href":"https:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152\/revisions\/153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}