Post by ndrthl on Oct 23, 2005 10:27:56 GMT -5
Does it make any sense?
"One cannot fail to see at the bottom of all these noble races the beast of
prey, the splendid blond beast, prowling about avidly in search of spoil and
victory; this hidden core needs to erupt from time to time, the animal has
to get out again and go back to the wilderness: the Roman, Arabian, Germanic,
Japanese nobility, the Homeric heroes, the Scandinavian Vikings -- they all
shared this need." (Nietzsche)
"One may be quite justified in continuing to fear the blond beast at the
core
of all noble races and in being on one's guard against it." (Nietzsche)
"The deep and icy mistrust the German still arouses today whenever he gets
into a position of power is an echo of that inextinguishable horror with
which Europe observed for centuries that raging of the blond Germanic beast
(although between the old Germanic tribes and us Germans there exists hardly
a conceptual relationship, let alone one of blood)." (Nietzsche)
"I used the word 'state': it is obvious who is meant by this -- some pack
of
blond beasts of prey, a conqueror and master race which, organized for war
and with the ability to organize, unhesitatingly lays its terrible claws
upon
a populace perhaps tremendously superior in numbers but still formless and
nomad. That is after all how the 'state' began on earth: I think that
sentimentalism which would have it begin with a 'contract' has been disposed
of." (Nietzsche)
My personal opinion is that it was a methaphor more than anything else... but too many people dont seem to have taken it so.
"One cannot fail to see at the bottom of all these noble races the beast of
prey, the splendid blond beast, prowling about avidly in search of spoil and
victory; this hidden core needs to erupt from time to time, the animal has
to get out again and go back to the wilderness: the Roman, Arabian, Germanic,
Japanese nobility, the Homeric heroes, the Scandinavian Vikings -- they all
shared this need." (Nietzsche)
"One may be quite justified in continuing to fear the blond beast at the
core
of all noble races and in being on one's guard against it." (Nietzsche)
"The deep and icy mistrust the German still arouses today whenever he gets
into a position of power is an echo of that inextinguishable horror with
which Europe observed for centuries that raging of the blond Germanic beast
(although between the old Germanic tribes and us Germans there exists hardly
a conceptual relationship, let alone one of blood)." (Nietzsche)
"I used the word 'state': it is obvious who is meant by this -- some pack
of
blond beasts of prey, a conqueror and master race which, organized for war
and with the ability to organize, unhesitatingly lays its terrible claws
upon
a populace perhaps tremendously superior in numbers but still formless and
nomad. That is after all how the 'state' began on earth: I think that
sentimentalism which would have it begin with a 'contract' has been disposed
of." (Nietzsche)
My personal opinion is that it was a methaphor more than anything else... but too many people dont seem to have taken it so.
