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