Saturday, October 09, 2004

 

The Domestic Circle

Nietzsche (tr. Walter Kaufman), Die fröhliche Wissenschaft, V, 369:
No one knows a child less well than its parents do. (Niemand kennt ein Kind schlechter als seine Eltern.)
The reverse is also true -- no one knows a man and woman less well than their child. Add this (Nietzsche, Also sprach Zarathustra, III, section Von den drei Bösen, 2) and the circle of misunderstanding is nearly complete:
Who can comprehend how strange man and woman are to each other? (Wer begriff es ganz, wie fremd sich Mann und Weib sind!)



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