“Those who make a practice of comparing human actions are never so perplexed as when they try to see them as a whole and in the same light; for they commonly contradict each other so strangely that it seems impossible that they have come from the same shop.”

Michel de Montaigne, Essays. II, ‘Of the inconsistency of our actions’ (Everyman’s Library, 2003) 290.

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“23. Leg mich aus, so leg ich mich hinein:

Ich kann nicht selbst mein Interprete sein.

Doch wer nur steigt auf seiner eignen Bahn,

Trägt auch mein Bild zu hellerm Licht hinan.”

Friedrich Nietzsche, Die Fröliche Wissenschaft, 1886; Scherz, List und Rache. ‘Vorspeil in deutschen Reimen.’

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“Truth is a life-eater.” The Gospel of Philip (NHC II, 3)

§43 “His disciples said to him, ‘Who are you, that you should say these things to us?” The Gospel of Thomas (NHC II, 2)