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daybreak 167 on unconditional homage
>We never forget what we endeavour to forget. And how great would be the "balance "which we should have to forget if we wished henceforth to continue wholesale admirers of these three great men (schopenhauer, wagner, bismarck)! It would therefore be far more advisable to profit by the excellent opportunity offered us to try something new i. e. to advance in the spirit of honesty towards ourselves and become instead of a nation of credulous repetition and of bitter and blind animosity a people of conditional assent and benevolent opposition. We must come to learn in the first place however that unconditional homage to people is something rather ridiculous that a change of view on this point would not discredit even Germans and that there is a profound and memorable saying: "Ce qui importe ce ne sont point les personnes: mais les choses".