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"Twilight of the Idols", an attack on all the prevalent ideas of his time, offers a lightning tour of his whole philosophy. It also prepares the way for "The Anti-Christ", a final assault on institutional Christianity. Both works show Nietzsche lashing out at self-deception, astounded at how... read more

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First Sentence

In every age the wisest have passed the identical judgement on life: it is worthless. . . . Everywhere and always their mouths have uttered the same sound - a sound full of doubt, full of melancholy, full of weariness with life, full of opposition to life.

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  1. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (Author)
 

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