What I understand by "philosopher": a terrible explosive in the presence of which… — Friedrich Nietzsche

What I understand by "philosopher": a terrible explosive in the presence of which everything is in danger.

In the original German

Wie ich den Philosophen verstehe, als einen furchtbaren Explosionsstoff, vor dem Alles in Gefahr ist.

Ecce Homo · 1908
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Nietzsche, Friedrich. Ecce Homo: How One Becomes What One Is, translated by Duncan Large. Oxford University Press, 2009.
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Nietzsche, Friedrich. Ecce homo: Wie man wird, was man ist [Ecce Homo: How One Becomes What One Is]. Leipzig: Insel-Verlag, 1908.