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Full Idea
The 'highest concepts' ...are the most general, the emptiest concepts, the last fumes of evaporating reality.
Gist of Idea
The 'highest' concepts are the most general and empty concepts
Source
Friedrich Nietzsche (Twilight of the Idols [1889], 2.4)
Book Ref
Nietzsche,Friedrich: 'Twilight of the Idols and The Anti-Christ', ed/tr. Hollingdale,R.J. [Penguin 1972], p.37
A Reaction
This could be seen as an attack on the aspirations of all of philosophy, which seeks general truths out of the chaos of experience. Should we shut up, then, and just be and do?