THE SHORTEST FABLE

By Friedrich Nietzsche

In some remote corner of the universe that is poured out in countless solar sistems, there once was a star on which clever animals invented knowledge. That was the most arrogant and the most untruthful moment in "world history" -yet indeed only a moment. After nature had taken a few breaths, the froze over and the clever animals had to die.

The end.

It's taken from: Friedrich Nietzsche on Rhetoric and Language. Edited and Translated with a Critical Introduction by Sander L. Gilman, Carole Blair and David J. Parent. New York. Oxford University Press. 1989.