Origins of Wednesday iv

        Eventually, however, a day 

        arrives when conditions be-

        come more fortunate and the 

        tremendous tension decreases; 

        perhaps there are no longer 

        any enemies among one's neigh-

        bors, and the means of life, 

        even for the enjoyment of life, 

        are superabundant. At one stroke

        the bond and constraint of the 

        old discipline are torn: it no

        longer seems necessary, a condi-

        tion of existence - if it per-

        sisted it would only be a form

        of luxury, an archaizing taste.

        

        I always figured, the con-

        ditions of greater fortune

        this philosopher was talk-

        ing about, were social and

        cultural, not material. He
        expects social change, not
        social mobility. Still, e-
        ven the fortunate can hope
        to be released. 

       
      

Friedrich Nietzsche

Beyond Good & Evil

  Prelude to a Philosophy

  of the Future

  What is noble cclxii

Walter Kaufman

  editor & translator

Basic Writings

op. cit.

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