We no longer believe that truth remains truth when the veil is pulled off it, — we have lived long enough to believe this... At present it is regarded as a matter of propriety not to be anxious to see everything naked, to be present at everything, to understand and "know" everything. Tout comprendre — c’est tout mépriser... "Is it true that God is everywhere present?" asked a little girl of her mother. "That is indecent, I think" — a hint to philosophers!... One ought to have more reverence for the bashfulness with which nature has concealed herself behind enigmas and variegated uncertainties. Is truth perhaps a woman who has reasons for not showing her reasons?... Is her name perhaps, to speak in Greek, Baubo?... Oh these Greeks! they knew how to live!

Nietzsche Contra Wagner

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