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Quotation from Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche
“Insanity in individuals is something rare--but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs it is the rule”
Beyond Good and Evil, Part Four, §156, trans. Helen Zimmern (1906)
Collective delusion as the normal state of political and historical life.
Citation: "Insanity in individuals is something rare--but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs it is the rule" — Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, Part Four, §156, trans. Helen Zimmern (1906). (id beyond-good-and-evil-q10)
Portrait: Nietzsche187a, Friedrich Hermann Hartmann, Public domain.
