Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes

The elimination of the will altogether and the switching off of the emotions all and sundry, is tantamount to the elimination of reason: intellectual castration.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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• Elimination
• Castration

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• The elimination of the will altogether and the switching off of the emotions all and sundry, is tantamount to the elimination of reason: intellectual castration.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Emotions
  • Elimination
  • Castration