"Unexplained, obscure matters are regarded as more..." - Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche
Unexplained, obscure matters are regarded as more important than explained, clear ones.
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“no one talks more passionately about his rights than he who in the depths of his soul doubts whether he has any”
“What? You seek something? You wish to multiply yourself tenfold, a hundredfold? You seek followers? Seek zeros!”
“Let us guard against saying that there are laws in nature. There are merely necessities: there is no one who commands, no one whoobeys, no one who transgresses. Once you understand that there are no purposes, then you also understand that nothing is accidental: for it is only in a world of purposes that the word "accident" makes sense.”
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“It is as hard for the good to suspect evil, as it is for the bad to suspect good.”
“No two men see the world exactly alike, and different temperaments will apply in different ways a principle that they both acknowledge.”
“Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.”
More on Knowledge
“The sense organs, which are limited in scope and ability, randomly gather information. This partial information is arranged into judgments, which are based on previous judgments, which are usually based on someone else's foolish ideas. These false concepts and ideas are then stored in a highly selective memory system.”
“Plato is philosophy, and philosophy, Plato,--at once the glory and the shame of mankind, since neither Saxon nor Roman have availed to add any idea to his categories.”
“No one can speak well, unless he thoroughly understands his subject.”