"As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use."

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"As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use."

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"Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

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"Sometimes legends make reality, and become more useful than the facts."

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Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

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"The animal is ignorant of the fact that he knows. The man is aware of the fact that he is ignorant."

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"Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry."

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