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Ideas for 'Topics', 'Human, All Too Human' and 'Concepts and Counting'

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1. Philosophy / A. Wisdom / 1. Nature of Wisdom
14857 The highest wisdom has the guise of simplicity [Nietzsche]
     Full Idea: Truth tends to reveal its highest wisdom in the guise of simplicity.
     From: Friedrich Nietzsche (Human, All Too Human [1878], 609)
1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 7. Despair over Philosophy
14854 Deep thinkers know that they are always wrong [Nietzsche]
     Full Idea: Whoever thinks more deeply knows that he is always wrong, whatever his acts and judgments.
     From: Friedrich Nietzsche (Human, All Too Human [1878], 518)
1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 8. Humour
14833 Comedy is a transition from fear to exuberance [Nietzsche]
     Full Idea: The transition from momentary fear to short-lived exuberance is called the 'comic'.
     From: Friedrich Nietzsche (Human, All Too Human [1878], 169)
1. Philosophy / F. Analytic Philosophy / 2. Analysis by Division
12274 Begin examination with basics, and subdivide till you can go no further [Aristotle]
     Full Idea: The examination must be carried on and begin from the primary classes and then go on step by step until further division is impossible.
     From: Aristotle (Topics [c.331 BCE], 109b17)
     A reaction: This is a good slogan for the analytic approach to thought. I take Aristotle (or possibly Socrates) to be the father of analysis, not Frege (though see Idea 9840). (He may be thinking of the tableau method of proof).