Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and t…

Friedrich Nietzsche
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Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth... Through words and concepts we shall never reach beyond the wall off relations, to some sort of fabulous primal ground of things. ✨ Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks. Book by Friedrich Nietzsche, 1873.
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