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Quotation from Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche
“skepticism is the most spiritual expression of a certain many-sided physiological temperament, which in ordinary language is called nervous debility and sickliness”
Beyond Good and Evil, Part Six, §208, trans. Helen Zimmern (1906)
Nietzsche diagnoses modern scepticism as nervous weakness arising from the mixing of classes and races, a passage steeped in the degeneration theory of his time.
Citation: "skepticism is the most spiritual expression of a certain many-sided physiological temperament, which in ordinary language is called nervous debility and sickliness" — Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, Part Six, §208, trans. Helen Zimmern (1906). (id beyond-good-and-evil-q12)
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