"The body is a great intelligence, a multiplicity with one sense, a war and a peace, a herd and a herdsman."
— Nietzsche, Friedrich (1844-1900)
Date
1883-1885
Metaphor
"The body is a great intelligence, a multiplicity with one sense, a war and a peace, a herd and a herdsman."
Metaphor in Context
'I am body and soul'--so speaks the child. And why should one not speak like children?
But the awakened, the enlightened man says: I am body entirely, and nothing beside; and soul is only a word for something in the body.
The body is a great intelligence, a multiplicity with one sense, a war and a peace, a herd and a herdsman.
Your little intelligence, my brother, which you call 'spirit', is also an instrument of your body, a little instrument and toy of your great intelligence.
(pp. 61-2)
Categories
Provenance
Reading Daniel Dennett's review of Antonio R. Damasio's Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain, 1994. In the Times Literary Supplement, August 25, 1995, pp. 3-4.
Citation
Nietzsche, Friedrich. Thus Spake Zarathustra. Trans. R.J. Hollingdale. London: Penguin Books, 1969.
Date of Entry
06/14/2007
