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Single Idea 18320

[from 'Twilight of the Idols' by Friedrich Nietzsche, in 25. Social Practice / E. Policies / 1. War / a. Just wars ]

Full Idea

One has renounced grand life when one renounces war.

Gist of Idea

To renounce war is to renounce the grand life

Source

Friedrich Nietzsche (Twilight of the Idols [1889], 4.3)

Book Reference

Nietzsche,Friedrich: 'Twilight of the Idols and The Anti-Christ', ed/tr. Hollingdale,R.J. [Penguin 1972], p.44


A Reaction

Nietzsche was a medical orderly in the 1870 Franco-Prussian war, so he had seen it at first hand. I think the machine gun and the heavy bomber would have changed his attitude to warfare. He sounds a bit silly now. Nostalgia for the Iliad.