Single Idea 24120

[catalogued under 19. Language / F. Communication / 1. Rhetoric]

Full Idea

For me there are no true orators and super-orators unless they can convince the arguments themselves to run after them.

Gist of Idea

Great orators lead their arguments, rather than following them

Source

Friedrich Nietzsche (Unpublished Notebooks 1882-84 [1883], 22[01])

Book Reference

Nietzsche,Friedrich: 'Fragments from the period of 'Zarathustra' (v 14)', ed/tr. Loeb/Tinsley [Stanford 2019], p.547


A Reaction

I translate this as great orators generating the mere appearance of good arguments. Both reason and feeling must be irrationally swept along. Nice.