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Creatio unius est corruptio alterius

-Old Latin Phrase

Meaning

“The creation of the one is the corruption of the other.” Destruction of the One is followed by the Creation of the Other

You cannot put something on a table which is already laden; you must first clear those things away in order to put new ones in their place. And to build a house where an old house stands, you must first destroy the old house. We must go a bit deeper and realize that with the instinct of creation is always connected a destructive something; the creation in its own essence is also destructive. You see that quite clearly at the moment when you check the creative impulse; nothing is more poisonous to the nervous system than a disregarded or checked creative impulse. It even destroys people’s organic health. It is dangerous because there is that extraordinary destructive quality in the creative thing. Just because it is the deepest instinct, the deeper power in man, a power which is beyond conscious control, and because it is on the other side the function which creates the greatest value, it is most dangerous to interfere with it.

- Nietzsche’s Zarathustra: Notes of the Seminar Given in 1934–1939, Vol. I (30 October 1935), p. 654.