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We believe that we know something about the things themselves when we speak of trees, colors, snow, and flowers and yet we possess nothing but metaphors for things - metaphors which correspond in no way to the original entities.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Friedrich Nietzsche
Age: 55 †
Born: 1844
Born: October 15
Died: 1900
Died: August 25
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I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.
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What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind.
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