The question is asked in ignorance, by one who does not even know what can have led him to ask it. Philosophical Fragments
To stand in the midst of ... this whole marvelous uncertainty and rich ambiguity in existence without questioning, without trembling with the craving and the rapture of such questioning ... that is what I feel to be contemptible, and this is the feeling for which I look first in everybody. Some folly keeps persuading me that every human has this feeling just because he is human. The Gay Science
Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing the matter with this, except that it ain't so. Mark Twain's Notebook
To live alone one must be an animal or a God - says Aristotle. There is yet a third case: one must be both - a philosopher. Twilight of the Idols
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