Fourth Division: Concerning the Soul of Artists and Authors Part 1

Human, All Too Human: A Book For Free Spirits, Part I

by Friedrich NIETZSCHE (1844 - 1900)

"Human, all-too-Human, is the monument of a crisis. It is entitled: 'A book for free spirits,' and almost every line in it represents a victory—in its pages I freed myself from everything foreign to my real nature. Idealism is foreign to me: the title says, 'Where you see ideal things, I see things which are only—human alas! all-too-human!' I know man better—the term 'free spirit' must here be understood in no other sense than this: a freed man, who has once more taken possession of himself." (Nietzsche; Ecce Homo, p. 75.)

Listen next episodes of Human, All Too Human: A Book For Free Spirits, Part I:
Fourth Division: Concerning the Soul of Artists and Authors Part 2 , Fifth Division: The Signs of Higher and Lower Culture Part 2 , Eighth Division: A Glance at the State Part 2 , Ninth Division: Man Alone by Himself Part 2 , An Epode: Among Friends , Eighth Division: A Glance at the State Part 1 , Fifth Division: The Signs of Higher and Lower Culture Part 1 , Ninth Division: Man Alone by Himself Part 1 , Seventh Division: Wife and Child , Sixth Division: Man in Society