Third Lecture

GA 78/1921-08-31/p030 ·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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If one takes what I describe here as the content of Nietzsche's soul not as a system of abstract thoughts, but as something that wells up from the full nature of the human being, wells up from the human being in such a way that everything that this human being is in spirit, soul, and body, then one can look at this personality in such a way that one understands its collapse at the end of the 1880s. And it can already make us aware of the special nature of the sources of knowledge we need when we see how such a life collapsed at the sources of knowledge that agnosticism regards as the only ones, as the absolutely correct ones.

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