22.3.26

Words of consolation of a progress grow desperate

Our age gives the impression of being an interim state; the olde ways of thinking, the old cultures are still partly with us, the new not yet secure and habitua and thus lacking in decisiveness and consistency. It looks as though everything is becoming chaotic, the old becoming lost to us, the new proving useless and growing ever feebler. But the same things is experienced by the soldier learning to march: for a time he is more insecure and awkward than ever, because he is moving his muscles now according to the old method, now according to the new, and as yet weither has carrief off the victory. We are faltering, but we must not let it make is afraid and perhaps surrender the new things we have gained. Moreover, we cannot return to the old, we have burned our boats; all that remains is for us to be brave, elt happen what may. - Let us only go foward, let us only make a move. Perhaps what we do will present the aspect of progress; but if not, let us heed the words of Friedrich the Great and take consolation from them: "Ah, non cher Sulzer, vous ne connaissez pas assez cette race maudite, à laquelle nous apparte nous".


Friedrich Nietzsche
1844 - 1900