Monday, January 24, 2011

this is a rather interesting quote

I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

7 comments:

Simone said...

Now I know who Nietzsche is! I fell down "his" footpath in Eze.

Kristin said...

What's that from?

London Mabel said...

No idea, could be apocryphal.

London Mabel said...

Here we go:

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it is actually a derivation of a quote from Neitzsche’s Beyond Good and Evil.

Aphorism number 183

“Not that you lied to me but that I no longer believe you has shaken me.”

London Mabel said...

@Happy: Is that the bastard whose path kept tripping you up? Figures.

ladada said...

Great observation. Another one that strikes me as similar ... is how when someone is dissing someone else who's not there, I'm not really listening. Instead I'm thinking to myself: "So, what do you say about me when I'm not around?"

Somehow when we lie and gossip we miss the bigger implications that undermine all our creds.

London Mabel said...

@ladada Yes, so true.

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