Quote
By Friedrich Nietzsche
Our vanity is most difficult to wound just when our pride has been wounded.
- Source
- Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future (translated by Helen Zimmern), 1907 · aphorism 111, p. 92
- Read at
- The Macmillan Company, New York (Internet Archive scan of the 1907 edition)
Share this quote
About this quote
From aphorism 111 of Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil (1886), in Helen Zimmern's English translation (New York: Macmillan, 1907). Nietzsche wrote in German, so this is the translator's wording.