Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche
We operate with nothing but things which do not exist, with lines,

We operate with nothing but things which do not exist, with lines, planes, bodies, atoms, divisible time, divisible space — how should explanation even be possible when we first make everything into an image, into our own image! – Friedrich Nietzsche

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There cannot be a God because if there were one, I could not believe that I was not He. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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For such an advanced civilization as ours to be without images that are adequate to it is as serious a defect as being without memory. – Werner Herzog

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Metaphors are much more tenacious than facts. – Paul De Man

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Logicians may reason about abstractions. But the great mass of men must have images. The strong tendency of the multitude in all ages and nations to idolatry can be explained on no other principle. – Thomas Babington Macaulay

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The Image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy. – Ezra Pound

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