47

Words lie in our way!  Wherever primitive mankind set up a word, they believed they had made a discovery. How different the truth is!  they had touched on a problem, and by supposing they had solved it they had created a hindrance to its solution.  Now with every piece of knowledge one has to stumble over dead, petrified words, and one will sooner break a leg than a word.

Friedrich Nietzsche - Daybreak
Book I - Aphorism # 47

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