report no.: 022
informant: Kaufmann (trans.)
source: Nietzsche, Friedrich: Die Fröhliche Wissenschaft, second edition
location:
date: 1887

Nietzsche writes: 'Charitably interpreted, such a resolve might perhaps be a quixotism, a minor slighly mad enthusiasm; but it might also be something more serious, namely a principle that is hostile to life and destructive. — Will to truth' — that might be a concealed will to death.' [282]

See Report 001: Richie attributes, '"a hidden will to death"', 'in Nietzsche's words' to the city of Berlin.