"The surest sign of the estrangement of..." - Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche
The surest sign of the estrangement of the opinions of two persons is when they both say something ironical to each other and neither of them feels the irony.
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“We do not belong to those who only get their thought from books, or at the prompting of books, -- it is our custom to think in the open air, walking, leaping, climbing, or dancing on lonesome mountains by preference, or close to the sea, where even the paths become thoughtful.”
“As far as Germany extends it ruins culture.”
“The good four. Honest with ourselves and with whatever is friend to us; courageous toward the enemy; generous toward the vanquished; polite-always that is how the four cardinal virtues want us.”
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“We can speak very much to the purpose and yet in such a way that the whole world cries out in contradiction: namely, when we are not speaking to the whole world.”
“I'm thought of as this pissy, complaining, freaked-out schizophrenic who wants to kill himself all the time.”
“Be warned in time, James, and remain, as I do, incomprehensible: to be great is to be misunderstood.”