half-actor

Updated: May 28, 2025

What is lacking in England, and has always been lacking, that half-actor and rhetorician knew well enough, the absurd muddle-head, Carlyle, who sought to conceal under passionate grimaces what he knew about himself: namely, what was LACKING in Carlyle real POWER of intellect, real DEPTH of intellectual perception, in short, philosophy.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - Beyond Good and Evil