Quotes from book
The Dawn

Friedrich Nietzsche Original title Morgenröthe , Gedanken über die moralischen Vorurteile (German, 1881)

The Dawn of Day or Dawn or Daybreak is an 1881 book by the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. The Nietzsche scholar Keith Ansell-Pearson writes that Dawn is the least studied of all of Nietzsche's works.


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“The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.”

Man verdirbt einen Jüngling am sichersten, wenn man ihn anleitet, den Gleichdenkenden höher zu achten, als den Andersdenkenden.
The Dawn, Sec. 297

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