Nornagest comments on Rationality Quotes May 2013 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: D_Malik 02 May 2013 05:43:14AM 5 points [-]

He who is firm in will molds the world to himself.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Hermann und Dorothea, IX. 303.

Comment author: Nornagest 02 May 2013 05:48:38AM 2 points [-]

Nietzsche's hilariously intense (albeit somewhat tempestuous) intellectual crush on Goethe makes a little more sense to me now.