Feb 07 2012
∞
“ It is absolutely impossible for a subject to see or have insight into something while leaving itself out of the picture, so impossible that knowing and being are the most opposite of all spheres. […] The concept of being! As though it did not show its low empirical origin in its very etymology! For esse basically means “to breathe.
— Nietzsche, from Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks
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