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Friedrich Nietzsche
Human, All Too Human I Block b0419
Block 423 of 656
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German
408. Aussterben von Faust und Gretchen. - Nach der sehr einsichtigen Bemerkung eines Gelehrten ähneln die gebildeten Männer des gegenwärtigen Deutschland einer Mischung von Mephistopheles und Wagner, aber durchaus nicht Fausten: welchen die Grossväter (in ihrer Jugend wenigstens) in sich rumoren fühlten. Zu ihnen passen also - um jenen Satz fortzusetzen - aus zwei Gründen die Gretchen nicht. Und weil sie nicht mehr begehrt werden, so sterben sie, scheint es, aus.
English AI-generated translation, non-official
Codex gpt-5.6-sol · Non-official working translation · 2026-09-13
408. The Extinction of Faust and Gretchen. According to the very perceptive observation of a scholar, the educated men of present-day Germany resemble a mixture of Mephistopheles and Wagner, but by no means Fausts, whom their grandfathers, at least in their youth, felt stirring within themselves. Thus, to continue that proposition, Gretchens are unsuited to them for two reasons. And because they are no longer desired, they seem to be dying out.
French AI-generated translation, non-official
Codex gpt-5.6-sol · Non-official working translation · 2026-09-13
408. Extinction de Faust et de Marguerite. [TIRET] Selon la remarque fort perspicace d’un savant, les hommes cultivés de l’Allemagne actuelle ressemblent à un mélange de Méphistophélès et de Wagner, mais nullement à des Faust, que leurs grands-pères, du moins dans leur jeunesse, sentaient gronder en eux. Ainsi, pour poursuivre cette proposition, les Marguerite ne leur conviennent pas, et cela pour deux raisons. Et puisqu’elles ne sont plus désirées, elles s’éteignent, semble-t-il.
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