“Many a man fails to become a thinker only because his memory is too good.”
Friedrich Nietzsche book Human, All Too Human
Mancher wird nur deshalb kein Denker, weil sein Gedächtnis zu gut ist.
II.122
Human, All Too Human (1878)
“The finest virtues can become deformed with age. The precise mind becomes finicky; the thrifty man, miserly; the cautious man, timorous; the man of imagination, fanciful. Even perseverance ends up in a sort of stupidity. Just as, on the other hand, being too willing to understand too many opinions, too diverse ways of seeing, constancy is lost and the mind goes astray in a restless fickleness.”
“An Unprejudiced Mind,” p. 324
Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality (1964)
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