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I Like Nietzsche

"The times of corruption are those when the apples fall from the tree: i mean the individuals, for they carry the seeds of the future and are the authors of the spiritual colonization and origin of new states and communities. Corruption is merely a nasty word for the autumn of a people" ~ some "Joyful Wisdom" from page 98 :)

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rottenrobi · 56-60, F

I can tell it's a powerful quote, I just have to read it through a couple more times.

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Overthinking it might reduce its potency, be on guard against that, Herr Nietzsche would be mighty disappointed;)

rottenrobi · 56-60, F

@DreamTinker: good to know. I guess I don't understand "the autumn of people".

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@rottenrobi: Peoples and cultures as experiencing a cycle, Spring as in the beginning, autumn the death.... a concept Oswald Spengler developed much further in his Decline of the West which was a bestseller just before WWII.

rottenrobi · 56-60, F

Thank you!