We operate with nothing but things which do not exist, with lines, pla…

Friedrich Nietzsche
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We operate with nothing but things which do not exist, with lines, planes, bodies, atoms, divisible time, divisible space - how should explanation even be possible when we first make everything into an image, into our own image! ✨ Friedrich Nietzsche (2003). A Nietzsche Reader, p.77, Penguin UK
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