Nietzsche and Goethe are the two greatest prosists of the German language. Nietzsche had an awesome command of philology and was a syphilitic. His writing is seductive.
> Nietzsche wasn't very good at expressing what he meant.
His earliest works are lucid. As his disease progressed his work approaches rambling nonsense.
Goethe was a polymath and statesman, much more involved in the world of human intercourse than Nietzsche. A regret of mine is having read too much Nietzsche and not enough Goethe back when I had an excellent command of German.
> Nietzsche wasn't very good at expressing what he meant.
His earliest works are lucid. As his disease progressed his work approaches rambling nonsense.
Goethe was a polymath and statesman, much more involved in the world of human intercourse than Nietzsche. A regret of mine is having read too much Nietzsche and not enough Goethe back when I had an excellent command of German.