Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche Chapter 7 Page 10

experience?), instead of stating the naked and candidly reasonable truth that “disinterested” action is very interesting and “interested” action, provided that... “And love?” — What! Even an action for love’s sake shall be “unegoistic”? But you fools — ! “And the praise of the self-sacrificer?” — But whoever has really offered sacrifice knows that he wanted and obtained something for it — perhaps something from himself for something from himself; that he relinquished here in order to have more there, perhaps in general to be more, or even feel himself “more.” But this is a realm of questions and answers in which a more fastidious spirit does not like to stay: for here truth has to stifle her yawns so much when she is obliged to answer.