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Notebooks (Late 1886 – Spring 1887)
• Popular usage: There are no facts, only interpretations.
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Against that positivism which stops before phenomena, saying "there are only facts," I should say: no, it is precisely facts that do not exist, only interpretations...nietzschesource.org/eKGWB/NF-1886,7[60]

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Against that positivism which stops before phenomena, saying "there are only facts," I should say: no, it is precisely facts that do not exist, only interpretations...nietzschesource.org/eKGWB/NF-1886,7[60]" in the context of "Notebooks (Late 1886 – Spring 1887)
• Popular usage: There are no facts, only interpretations." to mean that wisdom is timeless.

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Friedrich Nietzsche

About Friedrich Nietzsche

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (15 October 1844 – 25 August 1900) was a German philosopher, cultural critic, composer, poet, writer, and philologist whose work has exerted a profound influence on modern intellectual history. His critiques of contemporary culture, religion, and philosophy centered on a basic question regarding the foundation of values and morality.