Transvaluation of values

Here Nietzsche is quite at his best.

He is ripe for the marvelous feat of the transvaluation of all values.

Nowhere is his language, that marvelous weapon, which in his hand became at once so supple and so murderous, more forceful and more condensed.

Nowhere are his thoughts more profound.

They are the utterances of one who voiced the hopes, the aims, and the realities of another world.

Not of an ideal world, not of a world beyond, but of a real world, of this world regenerated and reorganized upon a sounder, a more virile, and a more orderly basis.

In fact, of a perfectly possible world, one that has already existed in the past and could exist again, if only the stupendous revolution of a transvaluation of all values were made possible.

This, then, is the nature of the truths uttered by this one sane man in the whole of Europe at the end of last century, and when, owing to his unequal struggle against the overwhelming, hostile forces of his time, his highly sensitive personality was at last forced to surrender itself to the enemy and become one with them, that is to say, insane.

Here Nietzsche is quite at his best.

He is ripe for the marvellous feat of the transvaluation of all values.

Nowhere is his language, that marvellous weapon, which in his hand became at once so supple and so murderous, more forceful and more condensed.

Nowhere are his thoughts more profound.

They are the utterances of a man who, as a single exception, escaped for a while the general insanity of Europe, with its blind idealism in the midst of squalor, with its unscrupulous praise of so-called progress, while it stood knee-deep in the belittlement of man, and with its vulgar levity in the face of effeminacy and decay, They are the utterances of one who voiced the hopes, the aims, and the realities of another world.

Not of an ideal world, not of a world beyond, but of a real world, of this world regenerated and reorganized upon a sounder, a more virile, and a more orderly basis.

In fact, of a perfectly possible world, one that has already existed in the past and could exist again, if only the stupendous revolution of a transvaluation of all values were made possible.

This, then, is the nature of the truths uttered by this one sane man and the whole of Europe at the end of last century, and when, owing to his unequal struggle against the overwhelming, hostile forces of his time, his highly sensitive personality was at last forced to surrender itself to the enemy and become one with them, that is to say, insane.

Again he adopted the subtitle of An Interpretation of All That Happens.

Finally he hit upon An Attempt at Transvaluation of All Values and went back to four volumes, though with a number of changes in their arrangement.

In September 1888 he began actual work upon the first volume, and before the end of the month it was completed.

The summer had been one of almost hysterical creative activity.

What has a priest to do with philosophy? He stands far above it, and hitherto, the priest has ruled.

He has determined the meaning of true and not true.

Section 13 Let us not underestimate this fact that we ourselves, we free spirits, are already a transvaluation of all values, a visualized declaration of war and victory against all the old concepts of true and not true.

The most valuable intuitions are the last to be attained.

Here Nietzsche is quite at his best.

He is ripe for the marvellous feat of the transvaluation of all values.

Nowhere is his language, that marvellous weapon, which in his hand became at once so supple and so murderous,

more forceful

not of a world beyond, but of a real world, of this world regenerated and reorganized upon a sounder, a more virile, and a more orderly basis.

In fact, of a perfectly possible world, one that has already existed in the past

and could exist again, if only the stupendous revolution of a transvaluation of all values were made possible.

This, then, is the nature of the truths uttered by this one sane man in the whole of Europe at the end of last century, and when, owing to his unequal struggle against the overwhelming, hostile forces of his time, his highly sensitive personality was at last forced to surrender itself to the enemy and become one with them, that is to say, insane.