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“Knowledge subverts love: in proportion as we penetrate our secrets, we come to loathe our kind, precisely because they resemble us.”
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“God made everything out of nothing. But the nothingness shows through.”
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“it is only as an aesthetic phenomenon that existence and the world are eternally justified.”
― The Birth of Tragedy / The Case of Wagner
― The Birth of Tragedy / The Case of Wagner
“The owl of Minerva begins its flight only with the coming of the dusk.”
― Elements of the Philosophy of Right
― Elements of the Philosophy of Right
“What, if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: 'This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more' ... Would you not throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse the demon who spoke thus? Or have you once experienced a tremendous moment when you would have answered him: 'You are a god and never have I heard anything more divine.”
― The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs
― The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs
William’s 2025 Year in Books
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