The significance of language for the evolution of culture lies in this, that mankind set up in language a separate world beside the other world, a place it took to be so firmly set that, standing upon it, it could lift the rest of the world off its hinges and make itself master of it. To the extent that man has for long ages believed in the concepts and names of things as in aeternae veritates he has appropriated to himself that pride by which he raised himself above the animal he really thought that in language he possessed knowledge of the world.
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No, life has not disappointed me. On the contrary, I find it truer, more desirable and mysterious every year -- ever since the day when the great liberator came to me the idea that life could be an experiment of the seeker for knowledge -- and not a duty, not a calamity, not trickery.
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Belief in truth begins with doubting all that has hitherto been believed to be true.
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Amor Fati Love Your Fate, which is in fact your life.
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Merchant and pirate were for a long period one and the same person. Even today mercantile morality is really nothing but a refinement of piratical morality.
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