We have paid for nothing more dearly than for the little bit of human reason and the sense of freedom that currently constitutes our pride.
ATTRIBUTION:
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900), German philosopher, classical scholar, critic of culture. Friedrich Nietzsche, Sämtliche Werke: Kritische Studienausgabe, vol. , pp. 31-32, eds. Giorgio Colli and Mazzino Montinari, Berlin, de Gruyter (1980). Dawn, “First Book,” aphorism 18 (1881).
