The praise of virtue is the praise of something that is privately harmful— the praise of instincts that deprive a human being of his noblest selfishness and the strength for the highest autonomy.
 Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science (1882). copy citation

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Author Friedrich Nietzsche
Source The Gay Science
Topic selfishness strength
Date 1882
Language English
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Note Translated by Walter Kaufmann
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