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“This is the crux of the moral pessimists: if they really wanted to promote their neighbors redemption, then they would have to resolve themselves to spoiling existence for him, and thus to being his misfortune; out of pity, they would have tobecome evil!”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (18441900)
“If usually the present age is no very long time, still, at our pleasure, or in the service of some such unity of meaning as the history of civilization, or the study of geology, may suggest, we may conceive the present as extending over many centuries, or over a hundred thousand years.”
—Josiah Royce (18551916)
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