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Abyss Apr 2026

Scholars and psychologists interpret this "gaze" in several distinct ways:

The term is most widely recognized from Nietzsche's aphorism 146: "He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And when you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss also gazes into you" .

This report examines the concept of the , primarily focusing on its most famous philosophical origin: Friedrich Nietzsche's 1886 work, Beyond Good and Evil . The Philosophical Origin