What do human beings really know about themselves? . . . Does nature not remain silent about almost everything, even about our bodies, banishing and enclosing us within a proud, illusory consciousness, far away from the twists and turns of the bowels, the rapid flow of the blood stream and the complicated tremblings of the nerve-fibers? . . . Given this constellation, where on earth can the drive to truth possibly have come from? —Friedrich Nietzsche, “On Truth and Lying in a Non-Moral Sense”

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来自火山的明信片：史蒂文斯及其批评家的反思

人类对自己真正了解多少？. . . 大自然岂不是对几乎所有的事物，甚至我们的身体，都保持沉默，将我们放逐并封闭在一种骄傲的、虚幻的意识中，远离肠子的曲折、血流的急流和神经的复杂颤抖吗？ -纤维？. . . 有了这个星座，追寻真相的动力到底从何而来？——弗里德里希·尼采，《论非道德意义上的真理和谎言》