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Quotation from Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche
“every great philosophy up till now has consisted of--namely, the confession of its originator, and a species of involuntary and unconscious auto-biography”
Beyond Good and Evil, Part One, §6, trans. Helen Zimmern (1906)
Nietzsche's thesis that philosophical systems express the moral purposes and drives of their authors.
Citation: "every great philosophy up till now has consisted of--namely, the confession of its originator, and a species of involuntary and unconscious auto-biography" — Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, Part One, §6, trans. Helen Zimmern (1906). (id beyond-good-and-evil-q2)
Portrait: Nietzsche187a, Friedrich Hermann Hartmann, Public domain.
