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PHILOSOPHY > philosopher, poet > Friedrich Nietzsche
The Germans --...
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The Germans -- once they were called the nation of thinkers: do they still think at all? Nowadays the Germans are bored with intellect, the Germans mistrust intellect, politics devours all seriousness for really intellectual things. . .
Source: Twilight of the Idols, What the Germans Lack, aph. 1 (1889).
-- Friedrich Nietzsche, (Oct 15 1844-1900), German philosopher, poet; He was a noted critic of Christianity, conformism and nationalism who wrote The Birth of Tragedy, 1872.