“I would not know what the spirit of a philosopher might wish more to be than a good dancer.”
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist
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The Gay Science (1882)
“There is no wish more natural than the wish to know.”
— Michel De Montaigne, book Essays
Book III, Ch. 13
Essais (1595), Book III
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