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What is familiar is what we are used to; and what we are used to is most difficult to 'Know' - that is, to see as a problem; that is, to see as strange, as distant, as 'outside us'.

What is familiar is what we are used to; and what we are used to is most difficult to 'Know' - that is, to see as a problem; that is, to see as strange, as distant, as 'outside us'.

Approximate author period: c. 1872 AD · industrial

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Friedrich Nietzsche
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Approximate author period: c. 1872 AD · industrial
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