"Wherever primitive man put up a word,..." - Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche
Wherever primitive man put up a word, he believed he had made a discovery. How utterly mistaken he really was! He had touched a problem, and while supposing he had solved it, he had created and obstacle to its solution. Now, with every new knowledge we stumble over flint-like and petrified words and, in so doing, break a leg sooner than a word.
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“What an age experiences as evil is usually an untimely reverberation echoing what was previously experienced as good--the atavismof an older ideal.”
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