Even the most harmful man may really be the most useful when it comes to the preservation of the species; for he nurtures either in himself or in others, through his effects, instincts without which humanity would long have become feeble or rotten.
 Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science (1882). copy citation

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