"I will make an attempt to attain freedom, the youthful soul says to itself; and is it to be hindered in this by the fact that two nations happen to hate and fight one another, or that two continents are separated by an ocean, or that all around it a religion is taught with did not yet exist a couple of thousand years ago. All that is not you, it says to itself."
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“Schopenhauer as educator,” § 3.1, R. Hollingdale, trans. (1983), p. 128
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Friedrich Nietzsche
1844 – 1900
deutscher Philologe und Philosoph
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