File spoon-archives/nietzsche.archive/nietzsche_1998/nietzsche.9807, message 396


Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1998 18:13:18 -0400 (EDT)
From: malgosia askanas <ma-AT-panix.com>
Subject: Re:  The under and over-man


    Many complain that the words of the wise are always merely parables 
and of no use in daily life, which is the only life we have.  When the sage 
says: "Go over," he does not mean that we should cross to some actual place, 
which we could do anyhow if the labor were worth it; he means some fabulous 
yonder, something unknown to us, something that he cannot designate more 
precisely either, and therefore cannot help us here in the very least.  All 
these parables really set out to say merely that the incomprehensible is 
incomprehensible, and we know that already.  But the cares we have to 
struggle with every day: that is a different matter.
   Concerning this a man once said:  Why such reluctance?  If you only 
followed the parables you yourself would become parables and with that 
rid of all your daily cares.
   Another said:  I bet that is also a parable.
   The first said:  You have won.
   The second said:  But unfortunately only in parable.
   The first said:  No, in reality: in parable you have lost.


                                                           (FK, "On Parables")


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