38: The Genius of the Species
The Nietzsche Podcast
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Consciousness Is Only a Net of Communication Between Human Beings
"Man like every living being thinks continually without knowing it," he says. "The thinking that rises to consciousness is only the smallest part of all this, the most superficial and worst part." He adds: 'If we consider whole races and chains of generations, where need and distress have forced men for a long time to communicate' The ultimate result is in excess of this strength and art of communication, as it were a capacity that now waits for an heir who might squander it.
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