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Quote.. again..

Posted: Fri Sep 30, 2005 11:42 am
by TRODTROD
ok some of you may have already seen this over in the BG2 forum, but it seems that this is BG1 not 2:

Unfortunatly i dont have BG1 installed at the minute, but i was wondering if someone could load it up and tell me the EXACT quote at the beginning, the abyss quote.

Ive been looking through the internet and found MANY different versions of it, and ive forgot the name of Nietzsche's book that its from, so i cant look that way.

Many thanks

TROD.

Posted: Fri Sep 30, 2005 12:29 pm
by FireLighter
BG1's quote has something to do with monsters, the abyss quote is from BG2 only.

Posted: Fri Sep 30, 2005 2:55 pm
by Curry
Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.

Posted: Fri Sep 30, 2005 3:04 pm
by TRODTROD
curry is that the EXACT quote from the game, or have you got it from a website?

TROD.

Posted: Sat Oct 01, 2005 3:03 am
by Curry
Well it's a famous Nietzsche quote

Posted: Sat Oct 01, 2005 3:15 am
by TheAmazingOopah
I'm watching the video right now:



He who fights with monsters, should look to it that he himself doesn't become a monster... when you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you...

-Friedrich Nietzsche




That's how it's excactly showed in the BG Introduction video

Posted: Sat Oct 01, 2005 11:41 am
by Curry
Yeah Nietzsche wrote his stuff in German so the translations don't always match

Posted: Sun Oct 02, 2005 10:12 am
by TheAmazingOopah
Yes, I know. But the fellow asked if the quote was excactly like that in the video, so I guessed that he wanted to quote the game or something.

Posted: Mon Oct 03, 2005 10:30 am
by TRODTROD
cheers.

TROD.