Friedrich_Nietzsche - Untimely_Meditations_(Cambridge_Texts_in_the_History_of_Philosophy__1997)

--!Notesp. 7, 1. 25 confessions: The full title of the 1872 work by Straussthat provoked Nietzsche's response is Der alte und der neueGlaube: Ein Bekenntnis (The Old and the New Faith: A Confession) .p. 11, 1. 1 enthusiasm: An allusion to Goethe, Maximen undReflexionen (Maxims and Reflections) , no. 495: 'The best thing weobtain from history is the enthusiasm it provokes' (an excerptfrom Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahren [1829] ).p. 11, footnote: These are the opening words of Horace's firstEpistle.p. 17, 1. 7 people: Lichtenberg, Vermischte Schriften (1867) , vol. 1,p. 188.p. 21, 1. 25 conversion: It was claimed by some that Winckelmannhad converted to Catholicism simply in order to gain betteraccess to Roman collections of antique art.p. 30, 1. 28 difficult: An allusion to the epigraph of Schopenhauer'sUber die Grundlage der Moralitiit (On the Foundations of Morality[1841]).p. 31, last line feathers: The word 'Strauss' means 'ostrich' inGerman. Here, as elsewhere in the first Meditation, Nietzscheplays upon the literal meaning of the name.p. 32, 1. 35 called it: Lichtenberg, Vermischte Schriften (1867) ,vol. 1, p. 90.p. 34, 1. 25 oracle: An allusion to Balthasar Gracian's 1647 El oracylumanual y arte de prudentia (Oracular Handbook and Art ofPrudence) , a collection of practical aphorisms much admired bySchopenhauer, who translated it into German.p. 43, 1. 12 carriage: Straussen-Wagen, a pun on Strassen-Wagen or'streetcar' .259