Quotation by Friedrich Nietzsche

When we have a great goal we are superior even to justice, not merely to our deeds and our judges.
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900), German philosopher, classical scholar, critic of culture. Friedrich Nietzsche, Sämtliche Werke: Kritische Studienausgabe, vol. 3, p. 518, eds. Giorgio Colli and Mazzino Montinari, Berlin, de Gruyter (1980). The Gay Science, first edition, "Third Book," aphorism 267, "When We Have a Great Goal," (1882).
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