“Haste is universal because everyone is in flight from himself.”
Friedrich Nietzsche Untimely Meditations
trans. Hollingdale (1983), “Schopenhauer as educator,” p. 158
Untimely Meditations (1876)
“For everyone is pained by the thought of disappearing, unheard and unseen, into an indifferent universe, and because of that everyone wants, while there is still time, to turn himself into a universe of words.”
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