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  1. author: Friedrich Nietzsche
  2. content: That immense framework and planking of concepts to which the needy man clings
  3. his whole life long in order to preserve himself is nothing but a scaffolding and
  4. toy for the most audacious feats of the liberated intellect. And when it smashes
  5. this framework to pieces, throws it into confusion, and puts it back together in
  6. an ironic fashion, pairing the most alien things and separating the closest, it
  7. is demonstrating that he has no need of these makeshits of indigence and that it
  8. will not be guided by intuitions rather than by concepts. There is no regular path
  9. which leads from these intutions into the land of ghostly schemata, the land of
  10. abstractions. There exists no word for these intuitions; when man sees them he grows
  11. dumb, or else he speaks only in forbidden metaphors and in unheard-of combinations
  12. of concepts. He does this so that by shattering and mocking the old conceptual barriers
  13. he may at least correspond creatively to the impression of the powerful present
  14. intuition.
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