“Both dogmatism and metaphysics … are attempts to project one’s own views on the world, and they are just as much attempts to hide precisely this projection from themselves as well as from their audience.”

—  Alexander Nehamas

Source: Nietzsche: Life as Literature (1985), pp. 33-34.

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