Friedrich_Nietzsche - Untimely_Meditations_(Cambridge_Texts_in_the_History_of_Philosophy__1997)

David Strauss, the confessor and the writerable but otherwise senseless exercise in ingenuity; and for the reader who cannotread these sentences in the original German Nietz.sche's comments must losemost of their relevence and force. The sensible course would therefore seem to be toomit this passage. ]Herewith I have completed my confession of faith. It is the confessionof an individual; and what can such an individual do againstall the world, even if his voice is audible everywhere! His judgmentwould - to leave you with one last genuine feather from the 5traussianplumage - be only 'of as much subjective truth as without any objective powerof proof':- is that not so, my dear friends? So continue to be of goodcheer! For the time being at least let it rest with your 'of as much . .. aswithout'. For the time being? That is to say, for as long as that forwhich it is always time, and which the present time has more need ofthan ever, continues to count as untimely - I mean: telling thetruth.55