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" without testimony." But the disproportion between the greatness of my task and the smallness of my contemporaries has found expression in the fact that one has neither heard nor even seen me. I live on my own credit; it is perhaps a mere prejudice that... "
Ecce Homo: How One Becomes what One is; The Antichrist: a Curse on Christianity - Page 7
by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - 2004 - 174 pages
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The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche: Ecce homo and poems, tr. by A. M ...

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Oscar Levy - Philosophy - 1911 - 290 pages
...well known already, for I have not " held my tongue " about myself. But the disparity which obtains between the greatness of my task and the smallness of my contemporaries, is revealed by the fact that people have neither heard me nor yet seen me. I live on my own self-made...
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Nietzsche, Philosopher, Psychologist, Antichrist

Walter Kaufmann - Philosophy - 1974 - 556 pages
...not know, and in terms of his own calling. Nietzsche answers his own provocative question in terms of "the disparity between the greatness of my task and the smallness of my contemporaries" (EH-V 1). His wisdom, he claims, consists in his opposition to his time — and we have seen that he...
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Nietzschean Narratives

Gary Shapiro - Philosophy - 1989 - 196 pages
...am. Really, one should know it, for I have not left myself "without testimony." But the disproportion between the greatness of my task and the smallness...even seen me. I live on my own credit; it is perhaps a mere prejudice that I live. (EH, 217; 6, 257) As we have seen, Nietzsche thinks of himself as posing...
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Contextual Authority and Aesthetic Truth

James S. Hans - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 376 pages
...Really, one should know it, for I have not left myself 'without testimony.' But this disproportion between the greatness of my task and the smallness...fact that one has neither heard nor even seen me" (p. 217). Not only do we see the flickering of Nietzsche's impending madness in this statement, for...
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Speech and System

Peter Bornedal - Foreign Language Study - 1997 - 386 pages
...am. Really, one should know it, for I have not left myself 'without testimony.' But the disproportion between the greatness of my task and the smallness...even seen me. I live on my own credit; it is perhaps a mere prejudice that I live.1 When Nietzsche faces the task of disclosing his true identity, he immediately...
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Nietzsche and the Problem of Sovereignty

Richard John White - Philosophy - 1997 - 228 pages
...to grips with the meaning of his life. Thus Nietzsche explains at the outset that "the disproportion between the greatness of my task and the smallness...fact that one has neither heard nor even seen me" (EH Preface sec. 1 ); and at the end he asserts, "I am no man, I am dynamite" (£H"Why I Am a Destiny"...
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Typography: Mimesis, Philosophy, Politics

Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, Christopher Fynsk - Philosophy - 1998 - 332 pages
...am. Really, one should know it, for I have not left myself "without testimony." But the disproportion between the greatness of my task and the smallness...even seen me. I live on my own credit; it is perhaps a mere prejudice that I live . . . Under these circumstances I have a duty against which my habits,...
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The Derrida Reader: Writing Performances

Jacques Derrida - Literary Criticism - 1998 - 324 pages
...italicized]. Really, one should know it, for I have not left myself 'without testimony.' But the disproportion between the greatness of my task and the smallness...neither heard nor even seen me. I live on my own credit [I go along living on my own credit, the credit I establish and give myself; Ich lebe auf meinen eigenen...
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Shakespeare Survey, Volume 50

Stanley Wells - Drama - 2002 - 320 pages
...am. Really, one should know it, for I have not left myself 'without testimony'. But the disproportion between the greatness of my task and the smallness...even seen me. I live on my own credit; it is perhaps a mere prejudice that I live. I only need to speak with one of the 'educated' . . . and I am convinced...
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The Many Faces of Philosophy: Reflections from Plato to Arendt

Amélie Oksenberg Rorty - Philosophy - 2003 - 544 pages
...am. Really, one should know it, for I have not left myself "without testimony." But the disproportion between the greatness of my task and the smallness...even seen me. I live on my own credit; it is perhaps a mere prejudice that I live. I only need to speak with one of the "educated" who come to the [Alps]...
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