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Don't Stare into the Abyss

About fifteen years ago my friends and I discussed one of Nietzsche’s famous aphorisms in from Beyond Good and Evil:
“146. He who fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby become a monster. And if thou gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will also gaze into thee.” (Source: Project Gutenberg)
This almost mystical utterance [...]

1 Comment by Peter Prevos on February 23, 2007

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