{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 5/l03/p008","lang":"en","edition":"RSPI1960","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"The similarities in the physiological characteristics of Leopardi and Nietzsche are especially remarkable. The same sensitivity toward weather and seasons, toward place and environment, are found in both. Leopardi feels the slightest change in the thermometer and barometer. He could create only during the summer; he traveled about, always looking for the most suitable location for his creative activity. Nietzsche expresses himself about such peculiarities of his nature in the following manner: “Now after long practice, when I observe the effects of climatic and meteorological nature upon myself, as upon a very delicate and reliable instrument, and after a short journey, perhaps from Turin to Milan, calculate the change in the degree of humidity calculated physiologically in myself, then I look with horror at the *sinister* fact that my life until the last ten years, the most dangerous years, has always been spent in locations treacherous and absolutely *forbidden* to me. Naumburg, Schulpforta, Thuringia, in fact, Bonn, Liepzig, Basel, Venice,—all of them places of misfortune for my physiology. ...” Connected with this unusual sensitivity in Leopardi as well as in Nietzsche, is a contempt for all altruistic feelings. Both of them had to overcome this in order to be able to tolerate mankind. From Nietzsche's own words one can see that his shyness in presence of strong impressions, of attractions which demand too much of his sensitivity, fill him with suspicion toward selfless impulses. He says: “I accuse those sympathetic people in that it is easy for them to lose the *modesty*, the *awe*, the *delicate feeling* for distances.” For Leopardi also, it was certain that a bearable human being was very seldom found; he encountered misery with irony and bitterness, just as Nietzsche had adopted as one of his principles: “As first tenet of *our* love for mankind, the weak and misformed shall be destroyed. And one should even assist them in this.” (Nietzsche's Works, Volume VIII, page 218) About life, Nietzsche said that it is “Essentially appropriation, injury, overwhelming of strangers and weaker ones, suppression, hardness, forcing upon others one's own forms, incorporation, and, in its least and mildest form, exploitation.” ( *Jenseits von Gut und Böse*, Beyond Good and Evil, p. 259) For Leopardi also, life is an unfeasible, frightful struggle, in which some trample others.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Part III. Friedrich Nietzsche's Personality and Psychotherapy","site_heading":null,"date":null,"location":null,"word_count":379,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/5/l03/p008","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":null,"edition_coverage":{"de":["original"],"en":["RSPI1960"]},"available_versions":[{"lang":"de","edition":"original","edition_basis":null,"is_original":true,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/5/l05/p008","locus":"GA 5/l05/p008","anchor_mapped":true,"anchor_method":"curated","anchor_confidence":"high"},{"lang":"en","edition":"RSPI1960","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/5/l03/p008","paragraph_aligned":true}],"german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"l05","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 5/l05/p006","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/5/l05/p006"}],"bead_confidence":"high","pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false,"length_check":{"de_words":335,"en_words":379,"ratio":1.13,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. 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Nietzsche spricht sich über solche Eigentümlichkeiten seiner Natur in folgender Weise aus: «Jetzt, wo ich die Wirkungen klimatischen und meteorologischen Ursprungs aus langer Übung an mir als an einem sehr feinen und zuverlässigen Instrumente ablese und bei einer kurzen Reise schon, etwa von Turin nach Mailand, den Wechsel in den Graden der Luftfeuchtigkeit physiologisch bei mir nachrechne, denke ich mit Schrecken an die *unheimliche* Tatsache, dass mein Leben bis auf die letzten zehn Jahre, die lebensgefährlichen Jahre, immer sich nur in falschen und mir geradezu *verbotenen* Orten abgespielt hat. Naumburg, Schulpforta, Thüringen überhaupt, Leipzig, Base], Venedig — ebenso viele Unglücks-Orte für meine Physiologie ...» Mit dieser außergewöhnlichen Sensibilität hängt bei Leopardi sowohl wie bei Nietzsche eine Missachtung aller altruistischen Gefühle zusammen. Für beide gehört es zu den Überwindungen, die Menschen zu ertragen. Aus Nietzsches eigenen Worten kann man ersehen, dass ihm die Scheu vor starken Eindrücken vor Reisen, die seiner Empfindlichkeit zu viel zumuten, das Misstrauen gegen die selbstlosen Triebe einflößt. Er sagt: «Ich werfe den Mitleidigen vor, dass ihnen die *Scham*, die *Ehrfurcht*, das *Zartgefühl* vor Distanzen leicht abhanden kommt.» Auch für Leopardi war es gewiss, dass ein erträglicher Mensch nur selten zu finden ist; er begegnete dem Elend mit Ironie und Bitterkeit, wie Nietzsche es zu seinem Grundsatz machte: «Die Schwachen und Missratenen sollen zugrunde gehen: erster Satz *unserer* Menschenliebe. Und man soll ihnen noch dazu helfen.» (Werke, Band VIII, S 218.) Nietzsche sagt vom Leben, es sei *«wesentlich* Aneignung, Verletzung, Überwältigung des Fremden und Schwächeren, Unterdrückung, Härte, Aufzwängung eigner Formen, Einverleibung und mindestens, mildestens, Ausbeutung». («Jenseits von Gut und Böse», § 259.) Ebenso ist das Leben für Leopardi ein unaufhörlicher, furchtbarer Kampf, in dem die einen die andern zertreten.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":335,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/5/l05/p006"}],"english":["GA 5/l03/p008"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":335,"en_words":379,"ratio":1.13,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":0.65,"band":"short","note":"This witness is materially shorter than the original (below 75%). Passages may be omitted without any visible gap. A phrase absent here is NOT evidence it is absent from the original; search the original language before concluding.","word_count":4530,"original_word_count":6942,"may_be_abridged":true},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"status":"unknown","warning":"No translator is recorded for this edition. 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