Christianity remains to this day the greatest misfortune of humanity.
Friedrich NietzscheRead
I hate who steals my solitude, without really offer me in exchange company.
Interpretation
The quote expresses frustration towards those who intrude on one's personal time without providing genuine companionship in return.
In this quote, Nietzsche highlights the value of solitude and the importance of meaningful connections. He suggests that mere company is not enough to justify the disruption of one's introspective space; true companionship must involve reciprocal emotional support and understanding.
In practice
During a discussion on the importance of personal space in relationships.
Christianity remains to this day the greatest misfortune of humanity.
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Watch them clamber, these swift monkeys! They clamber over one another and thus drag one another into the mud and the depth. They all want to get to the throne: that is their madness β as if happiness sat on the throne. Often, mud sits on the throne β and often the throne also on mud. Mad they all appear to me, clambering monkeys and overardent. Foul smells their idol, the cold monster: foul, they smell to me altogether, these idolators.
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Why can't women get along? Because we're afraid. We're afraid to be vulnerable. We're afraid to be soft. We're afraid to be hurt. But most of all, we're afraid of our power. So we become controlling and aggressive and vicious.
Iβve been rereading your story. I think itβs about me in a way that might not be flattering, but thatβs okay. We dream and dream of being seen as we really are and then finally someone looks at us and sees us truly and we fail to measure up. Anyway: story received, story included. You looked at me long enough to see something mysterioso under all the gruff and bluster. Thanks. Sometimes you get so close to someone you end up on the other side of them.
Thus much indeed he was obliged to acknowledge - that he had been constant unconsciously, nay unintentionally; that he had meant to forget her, and believed it to be done. He had imagined himself indifferent, when he had only been angry; and he had been unjust to her merits, because he had been a sufferer from them.
I find that in this day and generation, the meanest men have the lowest estimate of woman; that the greater the man is, the grander he is, the more he thinks of mother, wife and daughter.
I got along without you before I met you and I'll get along without you a long time after you're gone.
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