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Friedrich Nietzsche 6 quotations in Criminal Minds
Friedrich Nietzsche is quoted 6 times in Criminal Minds, from “Extreme Aggressor” (2005) to “Mosley Lane” (2010), read by Hotch, Gideon, JJ and Reid. Each entry gives the quotation, the episode it opens or closes and who reads it.
- Season 1 · Episode 1 · Closing quote
Extreme Aggressor
“When you look long into an abyss, the abyss looks into you.”
- Season 1 · Episode 6 · Opening quote
L.D.S.K.
“The irrationality of a thing is not an argument against its existence, rather, a condition of it.”
- Season 1 · Episode 16 · Opening quote
The Tribe
“The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe.”
- Season 4 · Episode 7 · Opening quote
Memoriam
“What was silent in the father speaks in the son, and often I found in the son the unveiled secret of the father.”
- Season 5 · Episode 9 · Opening quote
100
“He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.”
- Season 5 · Episode 16 · Opening quote
Mosley Lane
“Hope is the worst of evils, for it prolongs the torment of man.”