Citation needed
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Poetlister
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Re: Citation needed
Is this from a Wikipedia article? If not, it's 
Very funny, though.
Very funny, though.
"The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly" - Nietzsche
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Re: Citation needed
It's just the print-oriented way of saying that you read it in someone's blog. Plenty of those on Wikipedia.
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Re: Citation needed
It's from the English translation of the book "The Divine and the Human" by the Russian philosopher Nikolai Berdyaev.
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Re: Citation needed
This is the bit to which the footnote applies. Wikiquote, please copy.tarantino wrote:It's from the English translation of the book "The Divine and the Human" by the Russian philosopher Nikolai Berdyaev.
Man does not easily awaken from his ancient nightmares in which the ego has tyrannized over both himself and God; and hence the crucifixion of God. The ego has been a fatality both for the human self and for God.
"The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly" - Nietzsche