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“The error lies not only in the feeling “I am accountable”, but equally in that antithesis “I am not,…”
“The error lies not only in the feeling “I am accountable”, but equally in that antithesis “I am not,…”

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“The error lies not only in the feeling “I am accountable”, but equally in that antithesis “I am not, but somebody has to be.” — This is, in fact, not true: the philosopher thus has to say, as Christ did, . . .

“The error lies not only in the feeling “I am accountable”, but equally in that antithesis “I am not, but somebody has to be.” — This is, in fact, not true: the philosopher thus has to say, as Christ did, “judge not!” and the ultimate distinction between philosophical heads and the others would be that the former desire to be just, the others to be a judge.”

Friedrich Nietzsche, Assorted Opinions and Maxims, 33

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