Third Lecture

GA 78/1921-08-31/p025 ·1921-08-31 · English HighHigh alignmentThis translation's paragraph count matches the German original — the locus maps cleanly to the same paragraph in DE.
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Thus Nietzsche had to find fulfillment for his soul from other sources, with content that at least made life bearable for him. What thought no longer illuminated for him had to develop feeling and emotion, as in an inner burning of the soul that became fatal for him, and we see this feeling and emotion burning away thought in his writings from the 1870s, “Morning Twilight” and “The Gay Science,” which arose from his soul as if from an inner inflammation of the soul. As beautiful as these are, what had accumulated in him in morbid soul experiences was discharged in inflammations that poured fiery life through his soul, and this fiery life was now able to lift him above the unsatisfactory for a short time, above what had previously lifted him above that consolation I spoke to you about.

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