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All truth is crooked, time itself is a circle. - Friedrich Nietzsche
Attribution: Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900), German philosopher, classical scholar, critic of culture. Friedrich Nietzsche, Sämtliche Werke: Kritische Studienausgabe, vol. 4, p. 200, eds. Giorgio Colli and Mazzino Montinari, Berlin, de Gruyter (1980); Thus Spoke Zarathustra, p. 178, trans. by R.J. Hollingdale, Baltimore, Penguin Books (1961). The dwarf that is the “spirit of gravity,” in Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Third Part, “On the Vision and the Riddle,” section 2 (1884).

Categories: Classical Scholar, Critic Of Culture, Eternal Recurrence, Nihilism, Philosopher, Time

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