It is not enough to prove something, one also has to seduce or elevate…

Friedrich Nietzsche
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It is not enough to prove something, one also has to seduce or elevate people to it. That is why the man of knowledge should learns how to speak his wisdom: and often in such a way that it sounds like folly! ✨ Friedrich Nietzsche, Maudemarie Clark, Brian Leiter (1997). Nietzsche: Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality, p.162, Cambridge University Press
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