“It is not enough to prove something, one has also to seduce or elevate people to it.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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Daybreak — Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality (1881)
Context: It is not enough to prove something, one has also to seduce or elevate people to it. That is why the man of knowledge should learn how to speak his wisdom: and often in such a way that it sounds like folly!

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