Quotation by Friedrich Nietzsche

Someone who instinctively nourishes himself on ambrosia alone, who leaves behind what is indigestible in things.
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900), German philosopher, classical scholar, critic of culture. Friedrich Nietzsche, Sämtliche Werke: Kritische Studienausgabe, vol. 6, p. 120, eds. Giorgio Colli and Mazzino Montinari, Berlin, de Gruyter (1980). Twilight of the Idols, "Skirmishes of an Untimely Man," section 13 (prepared for publication 1888, published 1889).

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