Friday, January 16, 2009

BGE 205

"And if a man today is praised for living "wisely" or "as a philosopher," it hardly means more than "prudently and apart." Wisdom - seems to the rabble a kind of escape, a means and trick for getting well out of a dangerous game. But the genuine philosopher - as it seems to us, my friends? - lives "unphilosophically" and "unwisely," above all imprudently, and feels the burden and the duty o a hundred atempts [Versuchen] and temptations [versuchungen] of life - he risks himself constantly, he plays the dangerous game."

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