"A physician who treated me as a..." - Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche
A physician who treated me as a nervous case for a while said in the end "No! It is not a matter of your nerves; it is I who am nervous".
More by Friedrich Nietzsche
“Whoever wants to set a good example must add a grain of foolishness to his virtue: then others can imitate and yet at the same time surpass the one they imitate-which human beings love to do.”
“Plato was a bore.”
“Truth is the kind of error without which a certain species of life could not live. The value for life is ultimately decisive.”
More on Self Perception
“I was tormented with guilt for years and years. In fact, it was so bad that if I didn't feel wrong, I didn't feel right!”
“I thought that because I wasn't a sickly person - I never have been - I thought I was healthy. So I assumed health. I didn't have it.”
“Behaviour is the mirror in which we can display our image.”
More on Projection
“We are convinced that certain people have all the bad qualities we do not know in ourselves.”
“It is in the nature of political bodies always to see the evil in the opposite group, just as the individual has an ineradicable tendency to get rid of everything he does not know and does not want to know about himself by foisting it off on somebody else. Nothing has a more diverse and alienating effect upon society than this moral complacency and lack of responsibility, and nothing promotes understanding and rapprochement more than the mutual withdrawal of projections.”
“A man's hatred is always concentrated upon that which makes him conscious of his bad qualities.”