Full Idea
The intellect and the senses are above all a simplifying apparatus.
Gist of Idea
The mind is a simplifying apparatus
Source
Friedrich Nietzsche (Unpublished Notebooks 1885-86 [1886], 34[046])
Book Reference
Nietzsche,Friedrich: 'Fragments from 1885-86 (v 16)', ed/tr. Del Caro,Adrian [Stanford 2020], p.11
A Reaction
Very plausible, and not an idea I have met elsewhere. There's a PhD here for someone. It fits with my view as universals in language (which is most of language), which capture diverse things by ironing out their differences.