"They muddy the waters to make them look deep."

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Aphorists19th-century philosophersComposers from GermanyCriticism of ChristianityExistentialists
Original Language: English

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A google books search with dates restricted to 1800-2005 finds only three sources, the earliest one being Spirituality for the Skeptic: The Thoughtful Love of Life by Robert C. Solomon (2002), which attributes it to Nietzsche but gives no specific source.