“Whatever they may think and say about their "egoism", the great majority nonetheless do nothing for their ego their whole life long: what they do is done for the phantom of their ego which has formed itself in the heads of those around them and has been communicated to them.”
Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche
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Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality
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