Quotation by Friedrich Nietzsche

In morality, man treats himself not as individuum but as dividuum.
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900), German philosopher, classical scholar, critic of culture. Friedrich Nietzsche, Sämtliche Werke: Kritische Studienausgabe, vol. 2, p. 76, eds. Giorgio Colli and Mazzino Montinari, Berlin, de Gruyter (1980). Human, All-Too-Human, "On the History of the Moral Sentiments," aphorism 57, "Morality as the Self-Division of Man," (1878).

The terms individuum and dividuum serve in Scholastic philosophy to designate "that which cannot be divided without destroying its individual essence" on the one hand and "that which is composite and so possesses no individual essence" on the other.
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