"My ancestors Heraclitus, Empedocles, Spinoza, Goethe. [Original in German: meine Vorfahren Heraclit Empedocles Spinoza Goethe.]"
— Baruch Spinoza

January 1, 1970

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Friedrich Nietzsche, from his collected writings; fragment in 1884; quoted in Walter Kaufmann, Nietzsche: Philosopher, Psychologist, Antichrist (1950)