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Nietzsche thinking

[JGB-290]

Every deep thinker is more afraid of being understood than...

Every deep thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being misunderstood. The latter perhaps wounds his vanity; but the former wounds his heart, his sympathy, which always says: "Ah, why would you also have as hard a time of it as I have?"