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"I am not a man. I am dynamite."
Nietzche
A bit more context:
"I know my fate. One day there will be associated with my name the recollection of something frightful, of a crisis like no other before on earth, of the profoundest collision of conscience, of a decision evoked against everything that until then had been believed in, demanded, sanctified. I am not a man. I am dynamite." -- FW Nietzsche, Ecce Homo.
Basically, I think he was saying: "History will make me out to be way worse than I really was, and in that sense, I'm not just a man, filled with positives and negatives, but as something with the power to challenge everything."
I feel like he is both recognizing his own limitations while accepting that society will take those limitations away, but in a way that isn't very controllable. As a commenter says on the page I link to above, in Nietzsche's time, dynamite was a new, fearsome explosive that would have been the atom bomb of its time. So, that's why I interpret the original quote including the idea that the power society gives him is uncontrollable.
I love seeing western quotes translated into Japanese because of the words the translator uses. The original quote, taken literally, uses the word "man". However, in the Japanese translation the word "ningen" is used, which means "human". Interesting since the word "otoko" is the literal translation of the word "man." What this does, for me, is focus in on the meaning Nietzsche was getting at--he wasn't just saying "I'm not a man," he was saying "I'm not a member of the human race, I'm a monster, a force of nature."
I'm a writer! Of course, I'm going to get off on little things like this :)
