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Full Idea
There is an entirely different strength and mobility to maintaning oneself in an incomplete system, with free, open vistas, than in a dogmatic world.
Gist of Idea
Different abilities are needed for living in an incomplete and undogmatic system
Source
Friedrich Nietzsche (Unpublished Notebooks 1885-86 [1886], 34[025])
Book Ref
Nietzsche,Friedrich: 'Fragments from 1885-86 (v 16)', ed/tr. Del Caro,Adrian [Stanford 2020], p.6
A Reaction
This is like Keats's 'negative capability' - the ability to live in a state of uncertainty. I'm a fan of attempts to create a philosophical system, but dogmatism would seem to be the death of such a project. How would you live with your system? Nice.