Famous Quotes | All those who dwell in the...
All those who dwell in the depths find their happiness in being like flying fish for once and playing on the uppermost crests of the waves. What they value most in things is that they have a surface, their “epidermality”Msit venia verbo.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Attribution: Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900), German philosopher, classical scholar, critic of culture. Friedrich Nietzsche, Sämtliche Werke: Kritische Studienausgabe, vol. 3, p. 517, eds. Giorgio Colli and Mazzino Montinari, Berlin, de Gruyter (1980). The Gay Science, first edition, “Third Book,” aphorism 256, “Epidermality,” (1882). The Latin phrase sit venia verbo means “pardon the expression” and seeks the reader’s indulgence regarding Nietzsche’s rather odd coinage, Hautlichkeit (”possessing a skin”), which is translated here as “epidermality.”
Categories: Classical Scholar, Critic Of Culture, Philosopher, Profundity, Profundity And Superficiality, Skin
