CHAPTER 9Daybreak and
Grand Inspiration
Daybreak · Truth or love? Doubts about philosophy ·
Nietzsche as phenomenologist · The pleasure of knowledge- The Columbus of the inner world · The boundaries of
language and the boundaries of the world^ # The grand
inspiration at the Surlej boulder
the heat" (2,209; HH I § 251), Nietzsche wrote in Human, All Too
Human, but he added that these alone would not suffice. In the interest
of self-preservation and culture, science would need to be added to the
mix to cool things down, otherwise artistic idiosyncrasies would be in
peril of becoming "deleterious and dangerous consequences of over-
In this scheme of things, science functions as a force of equilibrium.
Individual lives are perspectivist, enveloped in an atmosphere of delu-
sion and ignorance. However, this very limitation is indispensable for
the creative process. Artists are well aware that manias and obsessions
are their driving forces. At the same time, they have found that cold cal-
culation, a reflective will to form, and constructive intellect solidify the
hot materials of enthusiasm into an auspicious shape, in art and in cul-
ture as a whole. The course of life infused with vitality and passionate
PARTIALITIES, and passions must provideheating" (2,209).