{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 5/l02/p007","lang":"en","edition":"RSPI1960","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Now Schopenhauer never worked upon Nietzsche in such a way that one could say that the latter had become a dependent. In the book, *Schopenhauer als Erzieher*, Schopenhauer as Educator, Nietzsche describes the impression which he had received from the teaching of the pessimistic philosopher: “Schopenhauer talks with himself, or, if one absolutely must imagine a listener, then one imagines a son whom the father instructs. It is an honest, strong, kindly expression, before one who listens with love. We lack such writers. The powerful feeling of well-being of the speaker surrounds us at the first sound of his voice. It is an experience similar to entering a large forest; we breathe deeply, and suddenly feel ourselves exceptionally well. Here is an even, harmonious, strengthening air: this is what we feel. Here is a certain inimitable openness and naturalness, such as those people have who are at home in themselves; indeed, who are at home in a very rich house.” This *aesthetic* impression is decisive in Nietzsche in relation to Schopenhauer. He was not at all concerned with the teaching itself. Among the notes which he had made at the time he had composed the pean of praise, *Schopenhauer als Erzieher*, Schopenhauer as Educator, one finds the following: “I am far from believing that I have rightly understood Schopenhauer, but rather, I have learned to understand myself a little better through Schopenhauer; this is why I owe him the greatest gratitude. But, all in all, it does not seem important to me that one goes to the depths of a philosopher and brings to light exactly what he has taught in the fullest sense of the word, and so on; such an understanding is least of all suited to human beings who are looking for a *philosophy of life*, not for a new *scholastic aptitude* for their *memory*, and in the end it remains improbable that such knowledge really can be found.” (Nietzsche's Works, German Edition, 1896, Volume X, p. 285)","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Part II. 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Hier ist eine immer gleichartige, stärkende Luft, so fühlen wir; hier ist eine gewisse unnachahmliche Unbefangenheit und Natürlichkeit, wie sie Menschen haben, die in sich zu Hause, und zwar in einem sehr reichen Hause Herren sind.» Dieser *ästhetische* Eindruck ist ausschlaggebend für Nietzsches Stellung zu Schopenhauer. Um die Lehre war es ihm gar nicht zu tun. Unter den Aufzeichnungen, die er sich zu derselben Zeit gemacht hat, als er die hymnusartige Schrift «Schopenhauer als Erzieher» verfasste, findet man die folgende: «Ich bin ferne davon zu glauben, dass ich Schopenhauer richtig verstanden habe, sondern nur mich selber habe ich durch Schopenhauer ein weniges besser verstehen gelernt; das ist es, weshalb ich ihm die größte Dankbarkeit schuldig bin. Aber überhaupt scheint es mir nicht so wichtig zu sein, wie man es jetzt nimmt, dass bei irgend einem Philosophen genau ergründet und ans Licht gebracht werde, was er eigentlich im strengsten Wortverstande gelehrt habe, was nicht: eine solche Erkenntnis ist wenigstens nicht für Menschen geeignet, welche eine *Philosophie für ihr Leben*, nicht eine neue *Gelehrsamkeit für ihr Gedächtnis* suchen: und zuletzt bleibt es mir unwahrscheinlich, dass so etwas wirklich ergründet werden kann.» (Nietzsches Werke, Band X, S. 285f.)","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":304,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/5/l04/p006"}],"english":["GA 5/l02/p007"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":304,"en_words":331,"ratio":1.09,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":0.46,"band":"severe","note":"This witness holds under half the original's words. 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