Heidegger Circle Proceedings

One day my name will be tied to the memory of something tremendous and monstrous---a crisis without equal on earth, the most profound collision of conscience, a decision that was conjured up against all that had hitherto been believed, mandated, hallowed. I am no man, I am dynamite.--- … ---the truth speaks out of me.---But my truth is terrible; for up to now one has only called lies truth.---Transvaluation of all values: that is my formula for an act of supreme self-examination [Selbstbesinnung] on the part of humanity, become flesh and genius in me. It is my fate to have to be the first honest human being, to place myself in opposition to the mendaciousness of millennia … When truth enters into a fight with the lies of millennia, we shall have upheavals, a convulsion of earthquakes, a moving of mountains and valleys the likes of which have never been dreamt of. The concept of politics then merges completely with a war of spirits [Geisterkrieg], all the power structures of the old society having been exploded, since they are all based on lies: there will be wars as there never yet have been on earth. It is first with me that there is grand politics on the earth.