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. ✨ Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (2012). Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks, p.83, Regnery Publishing
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