r/Nietzsche • • 17h ago

Original Content Nietzsche used to through the "genius of nostrils" smell what a writer was upto, and I couldn't sense the trembling, hesitancy, and nervousness Kafka was in while writing these words.

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u/I-mmoral_I-mmortal Swohlgeraten 17h ago

That's cause you don't have genius of the nostrils.

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u/Essa_Zaben 17h ago

I know i don't even after spending a decade of my life on Kafka and Nietzsche 😞 , but here is what I have, a sensitive soul if that makes any difference...

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u/I-mmoral_I-mmortal Swohlgeraten 17h ago

The short duration of beauty, of genius, of the Cæsar, is  sui generis:  such things are not hereditary. The  type  is inherited, there is nothing extreme or particularly "happy" about a type——It is not a case of a particular fate, or of the "evil will" of Nature, but merely of the concept "superior type": the higher type is an example of an incomparably greater degree of complexity a greater sum of co-ordinated elements: but on this account disintegration becomes a thousand times more [Pg 158]  threatening. "Genius" is the sublimest machine in existence—hence it is the most fragile.

Perhaps yours comes in another style. But it's always built towards.