In man, it can easily develop in the wake of his love, perhaps as gratitude or as an idiosyncratic taste and so-called elective affinity; but it is not an essential element of his love—so definitely not that one might almost speak with some justification of a natural counterplay of love and faithfulness in man. For his love consists of wanting to have and not of renunciation and giving away
 Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science (1882). copy citation

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