Friedrich NietzscheConvictions are prisons.
About This Quote
These words by the poet Emily Dickinson speak to many of us who are trapped in our personal prison of belief. She is referring to the desire to know why we believe what we do, rather than accepting the truth without understanding. Convictions are prisons because they keep us from seeing that there might be something better—something more true—out there for us. What is the great freedom that comes with freedom from convictions?
Source: The Birth Of Tragedy/Seventyfive Aphorisms/The Antichrist
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