Tracing something unfamiliar back to something familiar alleviates us, calms us, pacifies us, and in addition provides a feeling of power. [...] The first representation that serves to explain the unfamiliar as familiar is so beneficial that we “take it to be true”.

Nietzsche, Friederich: Twilight of the idols (1889)

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