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Quotation from Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche

“How long have I investigated this one thing, the brain of the leech, so that here the slippery truth might no longer slip from me”

Friedrich Nietzsche (spoken by The spiritually conscientious one)

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Part IV, Discourse LXIV: The Leech, trans. Thomas Common (1892)

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The scientist Zarathustra treads on in a swamp, his arm bleeding from ten leeches, defends knowing one thing rigorously and nothing else.

Citation: "How long have I investigated this one thing, the brain of the leech, so that here the slippery truth might no longer slip from me" — Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Part IV, Discourse LXIV: The Leech, trans. Thomas Common (1892). (id thus-spoke-zarathustra-q14)

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