Nietzsche: Why am I so smart
Excerpt from The Nietzsche Reader
Why do I know more about something? Why am I fundamentally so smart? I have never thought about a problem that is not a problem,—— I have not wasted my energy.
For example, I don't know from experience that there are real religious problems. To what extent I am "guilty" I am completely unconcerned with these kinds of questions. Again, what is a reproach of conscience, I do not have a reliable standard for this. As far as what has been heard in this regard, it seems to me that the reproach of conscience is not in the least worthy of respect ... I don't want to criticize an act after the fact, preferring to exclude bad results and consequences from the question of value in principle. When bad results occur, it is very easy for a person to lose the right vision of what he is doing. In my opinion, the reproach of conscience is a "vision of evil". Something that fails should be more self-respecting, because it fails – which is more in line with my morality.
"God", "immortal soul", "salvation", "the other side" are pure concepts that I did not spend time on, not even in my childhood,—— maybe I was never naïve enough in this regard?
I have no idea about atheism as a result, let alone atheism as an event, and in me atheism comes from instinct, which is self-evident. I was too curious, too skeptical, too arrogant to be satisfied with a rude answer.
God is a rude answer, a rough food for our thinkers, and fundamentally, even just a rude prohibition against us: you should not think! ...... One question that intrigues me strangely is that "human salvation" is sustained not so much by theological miracles as by it: the problem of nutrition. For the sake of convenience, we can phrase the question this way: "How can you strengthen nutrition in order to achieve maximum strength, Renaissance potential, and immoral virtue?" ”
My experience in this area could not have been worse; I was amazed at how late I woke up to the problem, so late in learning "rationality" from my own experience. Only the complete worthlessness of our German education (its "idealism") explains to me to some extent why I am pedantic to the point of sacredness precisely in this respect. From the very beginning, this kind of education taught people to close their eyes and not look at reality, but to pursue the so-called "ideal" goals in question, such as "classical education", as if "classical" and "German" were not destined to merge into one concept from the beginning! What's even further is fun: imagine a "classically educated" Leipzig!
In fact, I ate poorly until adulthood,—— in moral language, i.e., "impersonal," "selfless," "altruistic," for the benefit of chefs and other Christians. For example, because of Leipzig's cooking, and because of my preliminary study of Schopenhauer (1865), I very seriously denied my "will to life".
Wanting to be malnourished and spoil your appetite – I think the above cooking solves this problem smoothly and amazingly. (It is said that this changed in 1866.) But, in general, German cooking is not responsible for anything bad! Tapazette (known as alla tedesca in 16th-century Venetian recipes); meat that has not been boiled to taste meat, and vegetables that are made greasy and rotten; The pastry is hard enough to be used as a paperweight! And to add to the need for old, certainly not only the extremely barbaric after-dinner drinking of the old Germans, then we also understand the origin of the German spirit - from unlucky guts ... The German spirit is dyspepsia, it cannot digest anything.
However, the English diet, compared with that of Germany and even France, is a "return to nature", that is, a return to cannibalism, which is also contrary to my nature; In my opinion, it makes the spirit step heavy - the feet of an English woman ... The best cooking is in Piemont's place.
Alcohol is bad for me; A glass of wine or beer a day is enough to turn my life into a "sea of bitterness",—— there are people who are the opposite of me in Munich. If I understood this a little late, then I have experienced it myself since I was a child. As a child, I believed that drinking, like smoking, began as a vanity for young men and later became a vice. The wines of Naumburg may be responsible for this harsh judgment. For me to believe that wine can help me, I have to be a Christian.
I mean, it's to believe what I think is ridiculous. Strangely, a small amount of light liquor can make me extremely depressed, but when I drink strong alcohol, I almost feel like a sailor. I was quite brave in this regard as a child. Writing and transcribing a splendid Latin treatise overnight, with the vanity of words, imitating the rigor and simplicity of my model Sallust, watering my Latin with the strongest Grogg, all these things I did when I was a student of the venerable Schulpforta, and they were not contrary to my physiology, and perhaps not to the physiology of Salust,—— especially not contrary to the venerable Pulta Secondary School... But later, as I reached middle age, I became more and more strict about any "spiritual" drink.
I, an empirically anti-vegetarian man, am as bad as Richard Wagner, who advised me, to advise all the more spiritual people abstaining from alcohol. Water can do that... I prefer wherever I can draw clear water from the stream (Nizza, Turrin, Sears); A small cup followed me like a dog. In vion veritas: It seems that in this respect, my view of truth is different from that of the rest of the world. In my case, the spirit floats on the water... My ethics can also provide several guidance. A good meal is easier to digest than a poor meal. Mobilizing the entire stomach is the first condition for good digestion.
A person must know the capacity of his stomach. For the same reason, please refrain from eating too time-consuming meals, which I call the interrupted festival of sacrifices, as seen in the table d'hote (guest meal in the hotel).
Don't eat snacks between meals, don't drink coffee, coffee makes people gloomy. Tea is only good for health in the morning. Drink less, but be strong; If the strength of the tea is insufficient, it is very harmful and will make people lose energy all day. In this respect, each person has his own scale, often between the smallest and most delicate boundaries. When the climate is very unsuitable, it is not advisable to drink morning tea, but to drink a cup of fat-free concentrated cocoa an hour in advance as a start.
Sit as little as possible. Do not believe in any thought that is not born outdoors and in free movement,—— in which the muscles are not comfortable. All prejudice originates from internal organs. - I have already said that sitting still is a true sin against the divine spirit.
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