Quotation by Friedrich Nietzsche

"How many things there were for conscience to bite on in the past! How good its teeth were then!—And today? What is missing?"MA dentist's question.
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900), German philosopher, classical scholar, critic of culture. Friedrich Nietzsche, Sämtliche Werke: Kritische Studienausgabe, vol. 6, p. 63, eds. Giorgio Colli and Mazzino Montinari, Berlin, de Gruyter (1980). Twilight of the Idols, "Maxims and Arrows," section 29 (prepared for publication 1888, published 1889).

The German word Gewissensbisse (literally, "conscience- bites") signifies remorse.
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