“A man as he ought to be: that sounds to us as insipid as "a tree as it ought to be."”

—  Friedrich Nietzsche , book The Will to Power

Sec. 332 (Notebook W II 3. November 1887 - March 1888, KGW VIII, 2.304, KSA 13.62)
The Will to Power (1888)

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