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What is originality? To see something that has no name as yet and hence cannot be… — Friedrich Nietzsche

Philosophical literature

What is originality? To see something that has no name as yet and hence cannot be mentioned although it stares us all in the face.

Friedrich Nietzsche
The Gay Science · 1882
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OriginalityPerceptionObservationVision
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Philosophical literature
Time
1882
Person
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Nietzsche, Friedrich. The Joyous Science, translated by R. Kevin Hill. Penguin Classics, 2019, bk. 3, no. 261.
Original citation
Nietzsche, Friedrich. Die frohliche Wissenschaft [The Gay Science]. Chemnitz: Ernst Schmeitzner, 1882, bk. 3, no. 261.

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