Whatever has value in our world now does not have value in itself, according to its nature —nature is always value-less, but has been given value at some time, as a present—and it was we who gave and bestowed it. Only we have created the world that concerns man !
 Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science (1882). copy citation

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