All that philosophers have handled for millennia has been conceptual m…

Friedrich Nietzsche
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All that philosophers have handled for millennia has been conceptual mummies; nothing actual has ever escaped from their hands alive. ✨ Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1996). The Vision of Nietzsche, Element Books Limited
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All that philosophers have handled for millennia has been conceptual mummies; nothing actual has ever escaped from their hands alive. ✨ Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1996). The Vision of Nietzsche, Element Books Limited

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