"No more fiction, for now we calculate;..." - Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche
No more fiction, for now we calculate; but that we may calculate, we had to make fiction first.
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“One who is publicly honest about himself ends up by priding himself somewhat on this honesty: for he knows only too well why he is honest-for the same reasons another person prefers illusion and dissimulation.”
“Robinson had a servant even better than Friday: His name was Crusoe.”
“There is nothing we like to communicate to others as much as the seal of secrecy together with what lies under it.”
More on Fiction
“I find nothing in fables more astonishing than my experience in every hour. One moment of a man's life is a fact so stupendous as to take the luster out of fiction.”
“Surely the test of a novel's characters is that you feel a strong interest in them and their affairs the good to be successful, the bad to suffer failure. Well, in John Ward, you feel no divided interest, no discriminating interest you want them all to land in hell together, and right away.”
“Let it be fact, one feels, or let it be fiction; the imagination will not serve under two masters simultaneously.”
More on Reality
“That is the nature of democracy. It is hard. It is not always inspiring.”
“But since the affairs of men rests still incertain,Let's reason with the worst that may befall.”
“The most talented do not always end up as celebrities, and those with less talent often do. Upsets are written into our history and occur around us every day.”