“With the unknown, one is confronted with danger, discomfort, and care; the first instinct is to abolish these painful states. First principle: any explanation is better than none. . . . The causal instinct is thus conditional upon, and excited by, the feeling of fear. The "why?" shall, if at all possible, not give the cause for its own sake so much as for a particular kind of cause -- a cause that is comforting, liberating, and relieving.” IfsGivingFirstsKindStatesFeelingsCareCausesPrinciplesDangerParticularInstinctSakePainfulExcitedExplanationComfortingLiberatingDiscomfortAbolishConditional Book:The Portable Nietzsche Source: The Portable Nietzsche
“Facts which at first seem improbable will, even on scant explanation, drop the cloak which has hidden them and stand forth in naked and simple beauty.” FirstsFactsRealitySeemsSimpleNakedExplanationCloaksImprobableSimple BeautyHidden Beauty Book:Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences Source: Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences