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Represents Nietzsche's attempt to sum up his philosophy. In nine parts the book is designed to give the reader a comprehensive idea of Nietzche's thought and style. With an inclusive index of subjects and persons.
294. THE OLYMPIAN VICE.–Despite the philosopher who, as a genuine Englishman, tried to bring laughter into bad repute in all thinking minds–“Laughing is a bad infirmity of human nature, which every thinking mind will strive to overcome” (Hobbes),–I would even allow myself to rank philosophers according to the quality of their laughing–up to those who are capable of GOLDEN laughter. And supposing that Gods also philosophize, which I am strongly inclined to believe, owing to many reasons–I have no doubt that they also know how to laugh thereby in an overman-like and new fashion–and at the expense of all serious things! Gods are fond of ridicule: it seems that they cannot refrain from laughter even in holy matters.
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Source: Beyond Good & Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future (Vintage)
Contributed by: Cain MacWitish.
294. THE OLYMPIAN VICE.–Despite the philosopher who, as a genuine Englishman, tried to bring laughter into bad repute in all thinking minds–“Laughing is a bad infirmity of human nature, which every thinking mind will strive to overcome” (Hobbes),–I would even allow myself to rank philosophers according to the quality of their laughing–up to those who are capable of GOLDEN laughter. And supposing that Gods also philosophize, which I am strongly inclined to believe, owing to many reasons–I have no doubt that they also know how to laugh thereby in an overman-like and new fashion–and at the expense of all serious things! Gods are fond of ridicule: it seems that they cannot refrain from laughter even in holy matters.