“The only thing of interest in a refuted system is the personal element. It alone is what is forever irrefutable.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche , book Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks

Source: Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks (posthumous), p. 25

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

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