Wit is the epitaph of an emotion.
Friedrich Nietzsche · The source reads: “Der Witz ist das Epigramm auf den Tod eines Gefühls. Wit is the epitaph of an emotion.”
Friedrich Nietzsche: German philosopher, author of Thus Spoke Zarathustra, 1844 to 1900.
Friedrich Nietzsche · The source reads: “Der Witz ist das Epigramm auf den Tod eines Gefühls. Wit is the epitaph of an emotion.”
Friedrich Nietzsche · The source reads: “My time has not yet come either; some are born posthumously.” · Nietzsche on his own neglect; the line before says his time has not yet come.
Friedrich Nietzsche · The source reads: “What else is love but understanding and rejoicing that another lives, works, and feels in a different and opposite way from ourselves?” · Aphorism 75, "Love and Duality," in the familiar modern wording; Paul Cohn's 1913 translation reads "understanding and rejoicing that another lives, works, and feels in a different and opposite way from ourselves."
Friedrich Nietzsche · Zarathustra in the discourse "On Reading and Writing," in Walter Kaufmann's wording; Thomas Common's 1909 version ends "some method in madness."
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