Try for once to justify the meaning of your existence as it… - Friedrich Nietzsche

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Try for once to justify the meaning of your existence as it were a posteriori by setting yourself an aim, a goal... an exalted and noble 'to this end.' Perish in pursuit of this and only this

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Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (15 October 1844 – 25 August 1900) was a German philosopher, cultural critic, composer, poet, writer, and philologist whose work has exerted a profound influence on modern intellectual history. His critiques of contemporary culture, religion, and philosophy centered on a basic question regarding the foundation of values and morality.

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"as though "the Truth" were such an innocent and incompetent creature as to require protectors!"

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Battle not with monsters, lest ye become a monster, and if you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.

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