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A review by hammo
Ecce Homo: How One Becomes What One Is; Revised Edition by Friedrich Nietzsche
4.0
Common writing advice is don't equivocate; write boldly! Nietzsche is perhaps the boldest writer out there. He says exactly what's on his mind. He's not trying to impress anyone, or project himself in a certain way, or respect social niceties. If he thinks he's very clever, he'll say so. If he thinks dry air is good for thinking, he'll say so. If he thinks Germans are too political, he'll say so.
But at the same time, it's not like he isn't trying to communicate clearly. There's almost a childish quality to his writing. Like he doesn't have a filter. But he's not worried about not having a filter. It's un-neurotic. Life affirming. Refreshing. Nassim Taleb comes across a similar way.
My favourite line:
> God is a too palpably clumsy solution of things; a solution which shows a lack of delicacy towards us thinkers—at bottom He is really no more than a coarse and rude prohibition of us: ye shall not think!
But at the same time, it's not like he isn't trying to communicate clearly. There's almost a childish quality to his writing. Like he doesn't have a filter. But he's not worried about not having a filter. It's un-neurotic. Life affirming. Refreshing. Nassim Taleb comes across a similar way.
My favourite line:
> God is a too palpably clumsy solution of things; a solution which shows a lack of delicacy towards us thinkers—at bottom He is really no more than a coarse and rude prohibition of us: ye shall not think!