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So far, men have been treating women like birds that have lost their way and flown down to them from some height or another: like something finer, more vulnerable, wilder, stranger, sweeter, more soulful, – but also like something that has to be locked up to keep it from flying away.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche. Beyond-Good-and-Evil (p. 191). (Function). Kindle Edition.

Suppose if truth is a woman, what then ?

To the rabble,wisdom seems like a kind of escape, a device or trick for pulling yourself out of the game when things get rough. But the real philosopher(and isn’t this how it seems to us)lives “unphilosophically,” “unwisely,” in a manner which is above all not clever,and feels the weight and duty of a hundred experiments and temptations of life– he constantly puts himself at risk & plays the rough game...