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Ordinary language is all right.
One could divide humanity into two classes:
those who master a metaphor, and those who hold by a formula.
Those with a bent for both are too few, they do not comprise a class.
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Now I would rather say, of course another person's absence can make your life seem empty.
Neither the world nor love is in need of a theodicy unless we make it so.
Animals live, people do things; or is it that plants live, and animals do things? And if the latter, do people ever do anything... more?
Questions one is eager to be impatient with.
A gloss on what attracts 'the weak' in Genealogy I, 13 to 'the best doctrine on earth', the existence of 'the subject', 'an unbiased "subject" with freedom of choice': they need there to be a me who has nothing to do with me.
You can imagine that a lot of people saw Socrates coming and said, ugh, that guy.