The Dawn: Or Daybreak
- ISBN-10
- 1725771772
- ISBN-13
- 9781725771772
- Pages
- 154
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2018-08-25
- Author
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Description
"We laugh at a man who, stepping out of his room at the very minute when the sun is rising, says, "It is my will that the sun shall rise"; or at him who, unable to stop a wheel, says, "I wish it to roll"; or, again, at him who, thrown in a wrestling match, says, "Here I lie, but here I wish to lie." But, joking apart, do we not act like one of these three persons whenever we use the expression "I wish"?" Nietzsche wrote Dawn (or Daybreak) in 1881. The polemical, antagonistic and informal style of this aphoristic book-when compared to Nietzsche's later treatments of morality-seems most of all to invite a particular experience. This is the faithful translation of John Mcfarland Kennedy.
