Full Idea
The intellect and the senses are, above all, a simplifying apparatus.
Gist of Idea
The intellect and senses are a simplifying apparatus
Source
Friedrich Nietzsche (Writings from Late Notebooks [1887], 34[46])
Book Reference
Nietzsche,Friedrich: 'Writings from the Late Notebooks', ed/tr. Bittner,Rüdiger [CUP 2003], p.2
A Reaction
This seems like a profound truth to me. The world, and our own bodies, are of almost infinite complexity, such that only a god could grasp it. In order to teach, we have to simplify even further. We choose a level of simplification for contexts.