Famous Quotes | As the will to truth thus gains...

As the will to truth thus gains self-consciousness—there can be no doubt of that—morality will gradually perish now: this is the great spectacle in a hundred acts reserved for the next two centuries in Europe—the most terrible, most questionable, and perhaps also the most hopeful of all spectacles. - Friedrich Nietzsche
Attribution: Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900), German philosopher, classical scholar, critic of culture. Friedrich Nietzsche, Sämtliche Werke: Kritische Studienausgabe, vol. 5, pp. 410-411, eds. Giorgio Colli and Mazzino Montinari, Berlin, de Gruyter (1980); On the Genealogy of Morals and Ecce Homo, p. 161, trans. by Walter Kaufmann, New York, Vintage Books (1967). On the Genealogy of Morals, “Third Essay,” section 2 (1887).

Categories: Classical Scholar, Critic Of Culture, Knowledge, Morality, Philosopher, Truth

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