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Full Idea
Most people take a thing they know under their protection, as if knowing it turned it into their possession.
Gist of Idea
Most people treat knowledge as a private possession
Source
Friedrich Nietzsche (Dawn (Daybreak) [1881], 285)
Book Ref
Nietzsche,Friedrich: 'Dawn (Daybreak) (v 5)', ed/tr. Smith, Brittain [Stanford 2011], p.184
A Reaction
A typically wicked and subtle remark. This presumably makes knowledge part of the will to power, with which Francis Bacon would presumably agree.
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