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By Friedrich Nietzsche
Insanity in individuals is something rare—but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs it is the rule.
- Source
- Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future (translated by Helen Zimmern), 1907 · aphorism 156, p. 98
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- The Macmillan Company, New York (Internet Archive scan of the 1907 edition)
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From aphorism 156 of Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil (1886), in Helen Zimmern's English translation (New York: Macmillan, 1907). Nietzsche wrote in German, so this is the translator's wording. The popular wording is "Insanity in individuals is something rare, but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule."