[Ads-l] Quote: When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago. Nietzsche?

[ADSGarson O'Toole]

A note about the quotation in the subject line was sent by me to this
mailing list back in April 2018. Unfortunately, no substantial advance
was made in the investigation.

Yesterday, I received another inquiry; hence, I decided to post an
article on the QI website based on current, admittedly incomplete,
information.

When We Are Tired, We Are Attacked by Ideas We Conquered Long Ago
https://quoteinvestigator.com/2019/02/26/tired/

Feedback welcome,
Garson O'Toole

On Mon, Aug 27, 2018 at 2:06 PM ADSGarson O'Toole
<adsgarsonotoole at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> The quotation in the subject line is attributed to Nietzsche, and I
> haven't made much progress determining its provenance. The statement
> appeared in a 1957 collection of quotations as shown below. Columnist
> Sydney J. Harris disseminated the saying in the 1960s. It is listed in
> "The Viking Book of Aphorisms" compiled by W.H. Auden and Louis
> Kronenberger.
>
> [ref] 1957, The Book of Unusual Quotations, Compiled by Rudolf Flesch,
> Topic: Idea, Quote Page 124, Harper & Brothers, New York. (Verified
> with scans)[/ref]
>
> [Begin excerpt]
> When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.
> Friedrich Nietzsche
> [End excerpt]
>
> An earlier citation would be helpful. A citation in German attributed
> to Nietzsche would be helpful. The opinion of a Nietzsche expert would
> be useful.
>
> I found a 2013 instance in German within a book by Kevin Lau, but it
> appears to be a back translation from English.
>
> Garson O'Toole
> QuoteInvestigator.com

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