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24102 | Thoughts are signs (just as words are) [Nietzsche] |
Full Idea: Thoughts are merely signs, as words are signs for thoughts. | |
From: Friedrich Nietzsche (Unpublished Notebooks 1881-82 [1882], 5[1]272) | |
A reaction: The obvious question he invites is 'signs of what?'. His point must be that most thinking is both non-verbal and non-conscious, which he took to be true even of intellectual thought. I sympathise with his view. |