“Are you one who looks on? or lends a hand? - or who looks away, sidles off?… Third question for the conscience.”

—  Friedrich Nietzsche , book Twilight of the Idols

Source: Twilight of the Idols

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German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and cl… 1844–1900

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