“The simplest and commonest truth seems new and miraculous the very moment we first experience it in ourselves.”
Die einfachste und bekannteste Wahrheit erscheint uns augenblicklich neu und wunderbar, sobald wir sie zum ersten Mal an uns selbst erleben.
Source: Aphorisms (1880/1893), p. 20.
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Die einfachste und bekannteste Wahrheit erscheint uns augenblicklich neu und wunderbar, sobald wir sie zum ersten Mal an uns selbst erleben.
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