 | Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Oscar Levy - Philosophy - 1911 - 290 pages
...well known already, for I have not " held my tongue " about myself. But the disparity which obtains between the greatness of my task and the smallness of my contemporaries, is revealed by the fact that people have neither heard me nor yet seen me. I live on my own self-made... | |
 | Walter Kaufmann - Philosophy - 1974 - 556 pages
...not know, and in terms of his own calling. Nietzsche answers his own provocative question in terms of "the disparity between the greatness of my task and the smallness of my contemporaries" (EH-V 1). His wisdom, he claims, consists in his opposition to his time — and we have seen that he... | |
 | Arts - 1979 - 882 pages
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without testimony." But the disproportion between the greatness of my task and the smallness of my contemporaries has found expression in the fact that one has neither heard nor even seen me. I live on my own credit; it is perhaps a mere prejudice that... 
