When one has finished building one's house, one suddenly realizes that in the process one has learned something that one really ought to have known before beginning.
— Friedrich Nietzsche Modern

God is dead, existentialism

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Human, All Too Human, 'Of the First and Last Things,' Section 20

Date / Period

1878

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Shocking

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https://www.gutenberg.org/files/38198/38198-h/38198-h.htm

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