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11. Knowledge Aims / A. Knowledge / 3. Value of Knowledge
Most people treat knowledge as a private possession [Nietzsche]
     Full Idea: Most people take a thing they know under their protection, as if knowing it turned it into their possession.
     From: Friedrich Nietzsche (Dawn (Daybreak) [1881], 285)
     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.