What Friedrich Nietzsche thinks about evolutionary biology

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German philosopher (1844 to 1900); professor of classical philology at Basel from 1869 to 1879; author of Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Beyond Good and Evil and Twilight of the Idols.

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   Our readingEverything has evolved, so there are no eternal facts and no absolute truths

   Their wordsYet everything evolved: there are no eternal facts as there are no absolute truths. Accordingly, historical philosophising is henceforth indispensable, and with it honesty of judgment.

   ↗Human, All Too Human (1878; Alexander Harvey translation, 1908)gutenberg.org All 18 from this book