“Against that positivism which stops before phenomena, saying…”

“Against that positivism which stops before phenomena, saying "there are only facts," I should say: no, it is precisely facts that do not exist, only interpretations.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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Title: Wikiquote: Friedrich Nietzsche
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Notebooks (Late 1886 – Spring 1887) [http://www.nietzschesource.org/eKGWB/NF-1886,7[60&#x5D]

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Nietzsche, Friedrich. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Friedrich Nietzsche. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Friedrich_Nietzsche

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