Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded.

Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

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Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves...

Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves...

How poor the human mind would be without vanity! It resembles a well stocked and...

How poor the human mind would be without vanity! It resembles a well stocked and...

Wit is the epitaph of an emotion

Wit is the epitaph of an emotion

Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become...

Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become...

On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach...

On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach...

All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a...

All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a...

When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to...

When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to...

All of life is a dispute over taste and tasting.

All of life is a dispute over taste and tasting.

Whoever battles with monsters had better see that it does not turn him into a...

Whoever battles with monsters had better see that it does not turn him into a...

This is what is hardest: to close the open hand because one loves.

This is what is hardest: to close the open hand because one loves.

Where neither love nor hatred is in the game, a woman's game is mediocre.

Where neither love nor hatred is in the game, a woman's game is mediocre.

Madness is rare in individuals - but in groups, parties, nations, and ages it is...

Madness is rare in individuals - but in groups, parties, nations, and ages it is...

Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of...

Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of...

The last Christian died on the cross

The last Christian died on the cross

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy...

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy...

Before the effect one believes in different causes than one does after the effect.

Before the effect one believes in different causes than one does after the effect.

Only sick music makes money today.

Only sick music makes money today.

All truth is simple... is that not doubly a lie?

All truth is simple... is that not doubly a lie?

Truth is meant to save you first, and the comfort comes afterward.

Truth is meant to save you first, and the comfort comes afterward.

The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those...

The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those...