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Quotation from Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche

“Objection, evasion, joyous distrust, and love of irony are signs of health; everything absolute belongs to pathology”

Friedrich Nietzsche (spoken by Nietzsche)

Beyond Good and Evil, Part Four, §154, trans. Helen Zimmern (1906)

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Health and sickness used as categories for intellectual styles.

Citation: "Objection, evasion, joyous distrust, and love of irony are signs of health; everything absolute belongs to pathology" — Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, Part Four, §154, trans. Helen Zimmern (1906). (id beyond-good-and-evil-q9)

Portrait: Nietzsche187a, Friedrich Hermann Hartmann, Public domain.

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