“An intention that rejects what has no meaning in fact is a rejection of the entirety of being.”
Georges Bataille (1897–1962) French intellectual and literary figure
Source: On Nietzsche (1945), p. xxx
“The foolish reject what they see and not what they think; the wise reject what they think and not what they see.”
As quoted in Visions from Earth (2004) by James R. Miller, p. 17
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