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Almost everything called higher culture rests on cruelty made spiritual and intensified
Drawn from what Friedrich Nietzsche said
What Friedrich Nietzsche actually said
- Friedrich Nietzsche German philosopher (1844 to 1900)
Almost everything that we call "higher culture" is based upon the spiritualising and intensifying of CRUELTY—this is my thesis; the "wild beast" has not been slain at all, it lives, it flourishes, it has only been—transfigured.
Where this was said
↗Beyond Good and Evil (1886; Helen Zimmern translation)gutenberg.org
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