“We usually endeavour to acquire a single deportment of feeling, a single attitude of mind towards all the events and situations of life — that above all is what is called being philosophically minded. But for the enrichment of knowledge it may be of more value not to reduce oneself to uniformity in this way, but to listen instead to the gentle voice of each of life’s different situations; these will suggest the attitude of mind appropriate to them. Through thus ceasing to treat one self as a single rigid and unchanging individuum one takes an intelligent interest in the life and being of many others.”

– Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human, 618

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