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.
Now I know who Nietzsche is! I fell down "his" footpath in Eze.
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ReplyDeleteNo idea, could be apocryphal.
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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.”
@Happy: Is that the bastard whose path kept tripping you up? Figures.
ReplyDeleteGreat 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?"
ReplyDeleteSomehow when we lie and gossip we miss the bigger implications that undermine all our creds.
@ladada Yes, so true.
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