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Full Idea
One would have to be situated outside life ....[and yet know it thoroughly] ....to be permitted to touch on the problem of the value of life at all.
Gist of Idea
To evaluate life one must know it, but also be situated outside of it
Source
Friedrich Nietzsche (Twilight of the Idols [1889], 4.5)
Book Ref
Nietzsche,Friedrich: 'Twilight of the Idols and The Anti-Christ', ed/tr. Hollingdale,R.J. [Penguin 1972], p.45