The Will to Power · Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
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The _erroneous concepts_ which proceed from this concept are of three kinds:-- _(a)_ An unknown world:--we are adventurers, we are inquisitive,--that which is known to us makes us weary (the danger of the concept lies in the fact it suggests that "this" world is known to us....); _(b) Another_ world, where things are different:--something in us draws comparisons, and thereby our calm submission and our silence lose their value--perhaps all will be for the best, we have not hoped in vain.... The world where things are different--who knows?--where we ourselves will be different.... _(c)_ A _real_ world:--that is the most singular blow and attack which we have ever received; so many things have become encrusted in the word "true," that we involuntarily give these to the "real world"; the _real_ world must also be a _truthful_ world, such a one as would not deceive us or make fools of us; to believe in it in this way is to be almost _forced_ to believe (from convention, as is the case among people worthy of confidence). *** The concept, "the _unknown_ world," suggests that this world is known to us (is tedious); The concept, "the other world," suggests that this world _might be different,_ it suppresses necessity and fate (it is useless to _submit_ and to _adapt one's self_); The concept, _the true world,_ suggests that this world is untruthful, deceitful, dishonest, not genuine, and not essential, and _consequently_ not a world calculated to be useful to us (it is unadvisable to become adapted to it; _better_ resist it).
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