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There is an art in every good sentence. Human culture hitherto (up until now) has been semibarbarism. It is a fundamental belief of the aristocrats that the common people are liars. Under some circumstances, I love mankind. The thought of suicide is a great source of comfort: with it a calm passage is to be made across many a bad night. Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm. Twice, when an honest, unequivocal, perfectly scientific way of thinking had been attained with tremendous fortitude and self-overcoming, the Germans managed to find devious paths to the old ‘ideal’ - at bottom, formulas for a right to repudiate science, a right to lie.
There is an art in every good sentence. Human culture hitherto (up until now) has been semibarbarism. It is a fundamental belief of the aristocrats that the common people are liars. Under some circumstances, I love mankind. The thought of suicide is a great source of comfort: with it a calm passage is to be made across many a bad night. Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm. Twice, when an honest, unequivocal, perfectly scientific way of thinking had been attained with tremendous fortitude and self-overcoming, the Germans managed to find devious paths to the old ‘ideal’ - at bottom, formulas for a right to repudiate science, a right to lie.
Approximate author period: c. 1872 AD · industrial
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- Friedrich Nietzsche
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- Approximate author period: c. 1872 AD · industrial
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Supplied reference B; unit 1036; PDF page 103; printed attribution: Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
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